Emily and I were supposed to go on the Rogue River Trip this weekend but when we found out her dad was scheduled for a very intensive surgery the same weekend we dropped our plans and booked tickets home to be with him. I won’t go into details here except to say that doctors luckily found a spot of cancer on her dad’s pancreas early and determined that surgery was an option. The Whipple Surgery, named after the doctor who created it, is one of the roughest ones out there with a long recover time. Thankfully, before we left we heard the good news that they had taken a large enough “margin” around the cancerous cells and felt they had removed them all. Keith still has a long road ahead of him with Chemo and treatments but the outlook is good. It was really good to be there for him and Patti who stayed by his bedside for days.
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