Update 2: An Unexpected Journey

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This will be short as I need to get ready to take my mom to breakfast and back to the hospital to visit my dad.

My dad is doing extremely well. He was moved out of his ICU room into a regular hospital room last night, though not until after we left the hospital for the day.

His doctors think he will be able to go home Friday, tomorrow. Yippee!

Did I mention he had the A-Team ("I pity the fool!") of surgeons here in Memphis? He does!

I did get some work in yesterday, well, actually professional development studying since my project is in the deployment stage so there isn't any work to be done until we find out what is next on my client's agenda. Right now I'm learning about Git and Github. It's interesting and kind of fun.

But there I go again on a tangent. My dad has always been a mutant healer. That is, when he does get sick or needs procedures, he heals pretty quick and doesn't require a lot of pain medication (I take after him in that respect as well as many others). It doesn't happen very often, though as he's aged he's had more procedures more frequently. Getting old sucks. He still has a long road ahead, but the most life threatening part, the surgery to remove the sarcoma tumor is past and he's recovering well. He will have to come back in about 10 days for a skin graft over the surgical site and in late August or September he will start an intensive round of radiation treatments... 6 weeks and 5 days a week of radiation treatments. I think they are being especially aggressive with radiation to make sure 1) they get all of it and 2) prevent it from spreading into his right lung.

Ok, that's all for now. Gotta go. Thank you for all the love, prayers and sentiments.

Stay Tuned,

DeadGuitarist

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deadguitarist:
@thekarmaguy, I'm a lucky dude. My bosses allowed me to work remotely for pretty much as long as I'm needed to be with my parents, helping my mom with my dad's after care and other things around the house. I only have about 4 days of vacation available and can't afford an unpaid leave of absence. So while I'm badly underpaid, things like this make up for the below market salary. And since I don't have to use my vacation days, I can use them on the return trip, take my time and stop off at interesting places to shoot some photos!
thekarmaguy:
@deadguitarist I hear ya with the work thing. I can't take time off work either. The last time I took any vacation time was 2010 and I'm currently on day 10 of 12 in a row. It's good that you were given the opportunity to work remotely. My boss although he kinda breaks the rules a lot when it comes to Canadian Labour laws, takes care of me too. I'm respected because I've been there 16 years and I work my you know what's off and any time he needs me to do something I do it without question or hesitation. It's good that you are helping out. A lot of families today abandon each other when the shit gets real. Good on you man! 

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