Quick elaboration on my Da’s operation: The growth has been removed and is being inspected for cancer cells as I type this but a quick look under the microscope during the operation revealed nothing (whew!). It was thumb sized and mushroom shaped so they cut it off at the stem and sewed that up. After, they found more growth inside the duct and used a rusty ice cream scoop to dig that stuff out (also non-cancerous). So good news!

Yesterday he was groggy but awake, and the epidural wasn’t set high enough so in a bit of pain for an hour or two after. Got that resolved pretty quick. Right now he has more tubes coming out of him than that robot from Saturn 3.

I stopped in this morning and he insisted on a picture of his legs at his request. These lovely white leggings are anti-thrombrosis socks. Air is circulated through them to massage blood clot demons away. They also say “TED” so they remind him with every squeeze that I’m thinking of him! (cue audience: “Aaaaaaww!!!”)