Staying in Houston.

Saturday at 12:30 pm, I spoke with Mom. She said that they would be staying in Houston another night, and if things go well, that they would return home on Sunday. They are not sure what the knot is on Dad's leg, but they will keep and eye on that, if it changes, moves, gets red, etc.
His breathing is still "gaspy and short at times", especially when he talks.
He also had a shaking episode, almost like the chills (when you have fever), right after eating breakfast. He had several of these in the hospital, usually after he finished walking around the nurses station, but this was while he was just sitting right after eating. Dad is discouraged about this, the breathing, and the shaking. Pray for encouragement in this, that hopefully this will pass as his condition improves over the next few months. He doesn't want this to stay with him the rest of his life.
Another praise is that the pathology report came back and it appears that the chemo and radiation killed all the cancer!!! The Drs told Mom and Dad that the part they removed had no trace of cancer in it, and that they would not have known that for sure if they had not done the surgery. It appears Dad has been cured of cancer. Hallelujah!!!!
Now we just need to pray him through this process of recovering from such major surgery. They do feel like his symptoms of the breathing and possibly the shakes are related to the nerve damage I referred to in earlier blog entry. We will see, and we will pray that the symptoms will decrease as his strength and healing increase.
In His amazing mercy and grace, JJ and all the Janszen Kids