aberdeen

How nice to have a few replies when I woke up this morning! My Dad got two opinions…he started with his local oncologist and then went to the Siteman Center in St. Louis to have his liver resection with Dr. Strasburg – one of the best. When that didn’t work out, he saw Dr. Tan there at the Siteman Center (this cancer is his specialty) and will have his port put in there and the baseline chest CT there but will be able to have the chemo back home (drugs are drugs, the doc said, no matter where you get ’em). And….Dr. Tan said there was no reason for him to spend 6 hours round trip driving to Siteman. He should be livin’ his life; and out riding his motorcycle & spending time with his AMAZING family!

And…I’m in Wisconsin in the US. I lived in Aberdeen, Scotland while in college – spent a semester there and LOVED it. It’s a part of me…and always will be!

You are right about the expiration date – it’s not there on my Dad. (Although maybe I should check!) We are a very Christian family – one that relies on God. We know he has a plan here – and even though we don’t understand what is going on now, there is some true comfort in knowing God knew that surgery wasn’t going to work out and that God has a plan for all of us.

I’m glad I found you all!

aberdeen