Endoscope bring out the "Marshal Larson" in all of us!!

Tuesday the 9th of October 2012 (cont)
To finish today out Daddy had to go up to Alta View for and endoscopy and biopsy of the mass in his pancreas and liver.  Dr. Cutler performed today's procedure and he was able to see the mass in Pancreas is Large and blocking the entrance, the mass in the bile duct by the liver they could not tell if it was in the Liver or in the Lymph nodes causing them to swell and press on the duct. So this news to me is not great, we are trying to be hopeful but right now it seems like you have no control and no education or understanding of what to do. The Dr. Prepared us for the results and said that there is a 25% chance it can come back as a false negative, basically he was saying "This is Cancer, it is there, if it comes back Negative the test is faulty and the cancer is still there" I guess we will see what happens ,he asked us if we had an Oncologist yet and after our explanation of yes and details of who, where and when his response was to keep the appointment. Not too hopeful, I don't know what we expected but we left feeling as confused as when we went in. Although when I say we I of course mean my Mother and ME, Daddy was a little out of it. As he was just coming out of the anesthesia we could see him moving his lips as if he were having a conversation with someone but not talking out loud and then brought his hands together like a child would while praying, it was pretty funny, he was being silly or so we thought but later he explained that he had been saying a prayer when they put him under and so I guess he was continuing it when he came out. Then he just sprang up as if he was ready to get off the bed and leave, It took 3 of us to convince him of where he was and that he needed to lay down and wait just a little bit before leaving, then I watch as he kept trying to very slyly slide off his oxygen, but it would get stuck and he couldn't get it over his forehead and when the nurse started talking he quickly put his hands to his side as if we weren't going to notice the oxygen tubing that was hanging across his face, over his nose and covering his eyes. He peeked through the tube and looked at us like it was invincible it was pretty hilarious, laughing I asked him if he knew who he was, and he quickly responded, "Yes, Marshal Larsen" I asked mom who that was and through laughter she responded that he was the town Drunk when daddy was growing up!!! Hopefully tomorrow brings us more laughs and better news