Dh woke feeling much better! So we went to church. It's a long walk from the parking lot (even from disabled parking isn't real close) into the very large family room and into the sanctuary, I was going to have our son drive and drop us off but dh insisted he wanted to drive that he needed to walk. He has always been into exercise so sitting is just not like him. He did fine, he was just a little sob. After the service we went for prayer and the prayers seemed to really help him. He was very tired when we got home after all the walking though and went right to bed for a few minutes, but our oldest son went out for pizza and he got up and ate a slice. He lost another pound so is now down to 145, I think that's 10 or 11#loss now. It's not the weight loss that is unexpected though...it's the loss of appetite, and it's been happening slowly over the last few years. I've told our primary care doc about all these things...loss of appetite, fatigue, sob...and he just seemed to think it's his age, although he did give him something for his thyroid which was a tiny bit low in case it was causing the fatigue. It was not at the level they usually treat though and I don't think it had anything to do with his thyroid and it didn't help. Something someone else mentioned today and I hadn't thought of is that the mass could be some kind of benign tumor...it could just be causing trouble now (the fluid) because it is getting larger. So another more positive possibility to consider at least. I think they would remove it if that's the case.
Its been great having the older gc here. Two are very quiet but the older girl is chatty and it's been fun. They all went to church with us. Our older son got pizza for lunch. Our younger son and his fam decided to go out to eat.
Carole Sue - The surgery is tomorrow. We check in at 5:30 am and probably the surgery is 7:30. I plan to stay with him and will pack a bag, he will be there at least 3 or 4 days. We've been going to bed much earlier than we usually do, around 10 and tonight we are planning on 9.
Love2Garden - Hope all is well with you.
A funny and sweet thing I wanted to share: Opened up my pantry today and what did I find in a pan...a bunch of Spider Man toys! It is fun having small children around!