Thanksgiving

The whole month of November I watched people post on my facebook what they are thankful for.  I didn't post 1 thankful thought.  There are many things I'm thankful for but in the same hand there are many things I'm not.  I am thankful for my kids, my parents, my brother, my grandma and of course all the other friends and family I have in my life.  But I am not thankful for the amount of shit that continues to get piled on our plates day after day after day - and were not talkin food.  As I looked through all the pictures I took during our Thanksgiving feast instead of feeling joy that the whole family could be together I felt pain.  Pain in my heart.  So much has changed in the last couple months.  I noticed that my dads color has changed and he now has a neck.  No typo a "neck".  Dad has been pretty big for quite some time and his neck disappeared.  Not anymore, he has the look.  The look of someone that is sick.  Pasty/chalky skin color with a tinge of yellow.  Next holiday Christmas, not sure I even want to take pictures. 

Dad is now done with all of his radiation treatments.  On December 15th the chemo will be begin.  For those of you that do not have access to my facebook, dad had a new x-ray taken of his broken arm.  Hoping it was healing was so far off from what it was actually doing.  I can honestly say the break is gone.  The radiation has done it's job in his arm for sure.  It killed all the bad cells that caused the break in the first place.  But while it killed the bad cells it also killed the healthy one along with the bone.  He now has a plate attached almost nothing.  The radiation ate the bone  so now there is a big empty hole where bone should be.  Below is his x-ray.....

 Very cool for the kinds of people that like this kinda stuff (me for 1) and a bit disturbing for those that don't like it.  Sorry.
Dad has still been having a lot of pain in his hip.  X-rays were taken on those as well.  No problems seen in the hip bones. As for why he hurts so bad we don't know, we just figure it's the cancer talkin.  I will continue to keep everyone updated.  Post are becoming more spread out because no one wants to hear "today was a good day" or "today was a bad day"  I much rather say a bunch of things in 1 post rather than nothing in a lot.