Dad's gall bladder surgery may have revealed something even more serious [View all]
He was rushed into emergency gall bladder removal a few weeks ago when we learned that it had burst quite some time ago (don't ask me how he didn't know that). The removal took twice as long as it should have as the surgeon had quite a bit of "clean up" to do in there.
Last week, he went in for an ultrasound just to verify that there wasn't anything more to do in there. Then the doctor ordered a CAT scan. Word from the doctor is that my dad may have a tumor on hs pancreas.
We've been spending so much energy dealing with my mother's Alzheimer's that we were completely blind-sided by this.
There's still an issue of verifying this diagnosis, but as of yet we do not know how they'd go about doing this, or whether or not my dad would want to even bother. Dad will be 88 in June, and as my mother continues her downward spiral, will he want to stop being the caregiver in order to become the patient?
It's overwhelming.
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