Update on Dad's tumour

I just wanted to provide an update on my Dad’s medical condition since I’m sure some of you know at least some of what has transpired in the last several years. He went to see the specialist again last week.

Back in 2000, my dad was diagnosed with a benign tumour in his pituitary gland and had it removed. His pituitary gland was destroyed, so now he has to take all his hormones by pill. They could not remove all of the tumour since some was pushed right up against the brain and they thought it would be too risky to remove that. Now, 7 years later, the remaining tumour has grown to a size where something needs to be done. This time, instead of operating right away, they are going to try to stop the growth by radiation treatment. It’s going to be low-dose done once a day for 5 weeks. Which means my dad needs to go to Princess Margaret hospital every day for treatment starting October 22nd. Which means, he’ll be off work for 5 weeks. Good thing my mom has a job now! Yikes! He may be eligible for EI, we’ll see. I’m really hoping this radiation works because my dad says there is no way he’s having surgery again. He almost died the first time since he had a pulmonary embolism (i.e. blood clot) that traveled through his heart. If it had lodged in his heart, he would have been dead in seconds. So, he says there’s no way he’s going through that again. Anyways, there’s the update on what’s going on with him.

Back to wedding talk ;)

The meeting with the Pastor went well last night, I think we have our program looking the way we want, so we can finalize it sometime in the next few days and then I can start printing them off. I would like to have them all done and printed by the end of the weekend.