Smoke and prayers requested for Dad

Smoke up. If you wind up at Duke or Memorial, let me know if I can do anything for you, email me for my #, even if you just need directions or something.
 
Smoke and prayers for you and your father, Steve
 
Thanks friends. I've no doubt that all this energy will make a difference.

Steve
 
Smoke going out for your dad. And for you too Steve.

~ Bamboo






(ps. the khuks are on their way ....)
 
Steve, I don't know how I missed this for two days. Wonder how many threads slip by me...

Prayers and good wishes for you both, and I sincerely hope your Dad makes a full recovery.

All the best to you,

Norm
 
Well folks your prayers must have helped some.

Dad had NO mass in his lung. Apparently the doctor flunked X-ray reading 101. Just nothing there. Or it was there and now isn't.

There is a very large aneurism in the Aorta behind the heart. There's a doctor at NC Memorial Hospital just 1 1/2 hours from here that's one of the foremost in the country in less-invasive repair of aneurisms. Basically they take a rolled up fabric sleeve, insert it in the artery in the leg, or in Dad's case, through a small incision in the abdomen, run it up inside the artery to the right place, and anchor it top and bottom. It seals the aneurism off. 3-5 days in the hospital instead of cracking the chest, laying everything out on the operating table and repairing the artery. Still serious, but much easier on the patient. Dad has his done December 15th.

Thanks guys and gals.

Steve
 
This is the one occasion we can all appreciate a medical error...

More smoke anyway Steve!
 
We'll be remembering him on 12/15. Remind us, will you? Some of us are old.
 
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