Father In Law Update

So my Father In Law's stomach ache turned out to be colon cancer. They found a hole in his colon. They did an emergency surgery to patch it up & found the cancer. The hole in his colon led to a major infection because everything was leaking from his colon into his stomach. He's been in the ICU since last week but he's fighting the infection pretty well & they think he'll be out of the ICU within a day or two.

We haven't told him about the cancer yet since he's not 100% out of the woods on the infection. We also don't know the extent of the cancer yet. There's a chance that the cancer started somewhere else & metastasized into the colon. We just don't know how bad it is yet.

It's definitely a cruel twist of fate that this happened one day before he was finally going to be admitted to the Veteran's Home. If he had already been there, we would know that he'd be taken care of. Now we need to figure out where he's going to go once he gets out of the hospital. We made the decision to move his stuff out of the assisted living home because they can't provide the level of care he needs now. He'll need a full time nurse, so he'll need to be in a nursing home. So we're frantically trying to figure that out right now. We can't afford anything, and he certainly can't, so we're hoping Medicaid or Medi-Cal will cover it.

All of his things are currently in my dining room because we have nowhere else to put them. That's just one of the things adding to my stress. I had what I can only figure was my first migraine last night. I had to go to bed at 7pm because I couldn't even see because my head hurt so badly. I just keeping hoping I can make it through all of this stress in my life.