update

hey everyone, it's been the longest 36 hours of my life. i want to say thank you for the phone calls and emails and text messages, they all meant a lot. dad's surgery was about 8-9 hours long, he was done around 7pm and then moved up to the icu later and we got to see him around 12:30am. it took a while to stablize him, he was bleeding a lot and they went through 30 units of blood (i guess a lot? frannie?) he's still in the icu, kind of drifting in and out of being awake. he has a breathing tube and is on dialisis. apparently he was really really sick and the doctor said it was a 'life and death situation' and had they not done the surgery when they did then he wouldn't have lived through the weekend. sigh. so we saw him at 12:30am and went back to the hotel to sleep. they called mom around 2am and they took him down to the OR again because they were having problems with bleeding. he was in the OR till about 7am this morning and he's still in the icu. the doc's say the liver is doing everything it should be doing, just a little slow, but they're hoping it will perk up and work just fine. it's really hard to see him, he's all hooked up to everything and the breathing tube just looks brutal. i'm home now to help take care of timmy and stay the night in state college and then i'll head back to the hospital in the morning. the doc's said the next 48 hours are really important because of how sick he was when they did the surgery. so i'll be driving back and forth for the next few days, i'm going to try and go to work a bit monday maybe? i don't know it just depends on when he gets out of ICU the doc also said he could be on dialisis(sp?) for up to 2 weeks, so we've got a haul ahead of us.

ok. timmy and i need to find food. thanks again for the prayers (ha and rainbows and butterflies:O)
love and hugs, rach