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While checking on the dog at my parents’ house, I received an urgent call from my mother to return to the hospital.

Without going into the grim details, the emergency room doctor reviewed with me a two page list of everything that was failing or otherwise wrong in my father’s body. The doctor was very compassionate while still being straightforward, telling me that my father was the most ill person he had seen in a very long time, and that there was a strong possibility that he would not last the night.

To say that the oncologist we visited on Thursday was a bit too cavalier with the maladies that we described my father suffering in the days before the visit is putting it more than mildly.

At 4:00AM, they finished stabilizing my Dad to the point where he could be moved to the Intensive Care Unit.

Now, I am back at my parents’ house, retrieving the medication that my mom must take, checking on the dog, and making a small breakfast for my mother. The first time we can visit my father in the ICU is at 9:00AM.

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