About sixteen months ago, I told you about how I had to rush down to SC as my dad was in the hospital and not doing well at all. He recovered, as he always has, from a myriad of complicated and awful illnesses and conditions that have plagued him for nearly 40 years.
But it turns out that maybe he didn't get all the way better that time, and an infection has actually been raging in his bile ducts for the last almost year and a half. (He takes anti-rejection drugs, like after a transplant, to fight an autoimmune condition and these drugs may have let the infection go unchecked for all that time).
His doctors have been trying to treat the infection for the last 6 weeks or so, since it was discovered. Unfortunately, he's been getting worse. Thursday he was hospitalized for aggressive treatment, and I flew down first thing Friday.
I hadn't seen him since March, and he looks awful. I am very very very worried, and I am putting all this out onto the blog to ask for prayers, good thoughts, karma, juju, etc. Anything you could send his way, he needs. So does my mom, who has been by his side for nearly 40 years, most of them plagued by all these illnesses.
Thank you.
Here's dad a few weeks ago, doing one of his favorite things in the world...I'm hoping he will soon be up and able to catch some more great ones, but, it doesn't look so good today.
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