Thanks everyone for all you well wishes and prayers, they worked!

Bet you are glad to have him home and he is glad.

Well wishes to you all!

Hugs

Kathy

Tim is doing pretty good. He really isn't in pain, only when he coughs and he does that often, my heart just breaks for him. But it is something he needs to do to keep that one remaining lung clear. Hopefully in time he won't be doing it so often.

Just returned home from a few days off, and want you to know how very sorry about what your family must be enduring at this time.
I've been praying for you both, and want you to know I'll continue to do so. Tim is fortunate to have you by his side, and I'm rooting for his quick recovery.

Keep me updated, and in the meantime, please try to remember to take good care of yourself, okay? Stay strong and know we're all with you in our hearts.

Stephanie Vogelsong
stephvogelsong@aol.com

By the time everyone left about 6pm, Tim was pretty tired! My daughter decided to head back to their camper which is at a park last night so I was 'on duty' for the 1st time by myself. Tim had a rough night with coughing and just kept moving from bed, to recliner, to another chair all night long. It is 8am now and he has already had a nap. So today will be a resting day.

We don't know what other treatments he will need. His surgeon and lung doc don't think he'll even need to see an Oncologest at this point for the cancer, as the report shows they 'got it all'. He will have another PET scan in a few months to be sure though. We see the surgeon tomorrow and the lung doc on July 12th, so we go from there. Right now it is getting his strength back and working is left lung. I wish it were cooler here so I could get him outside walking a little, but it is so blasted HOT and HUMID I even have trouble going outside and walking!

So it is day-by-day for now.

Keep us posted on his condition. Fingers crossed he will improve each day. all my love anyway.

The Andersons are all sending good wishes your way.

The surgeon's office called to say they don't want to see him tomorrow.it should be 3 weeks from surgery. I told him I'm taking him out for a ride any ways just to get him out of the house for a while.

All those Anderson prayers and from everyone else have helped..thanks.

Sierra

I found a spot under a big tree (for shade, as it is HOT here) and my daughter came over and sat in the van with us...with the a/c running. He was tired and hurting when we got home, but he felt good.

In the evening he walked to the end of our drive way..which isn't long, but he was outside.

Give him a gigantic but careful hug from us, Lynda.

Catherine Anderson
CatherineDirect@aol.com

The HUGS are getting stonger, but there is less of him to hug..he had lost some weight before the surgery, but has lost alot more since. He is eating and I even have gotten him ice cream and chocolates, but the weight keeps coming off! He is within 2 lbs of when we got married almost 40 years ago...and I worked so hard to put all those pounds on him too!

But he is doing much better each and every day.

Seriously, we are all so thrilled to hear that Tim's recovery is progressing so well. Tell him his duck-hugging routine sounds like a candidate for America's Funniest Home Video show. And tell him this is the time to indulge in his wildest food fantasies and get some of that weight back on.

We're all sending love and prayers.

Everyone was gone within an hour, so that was good. He rested after that and in the early evening he decided he wanted to go out to dinner at our Mexican place...hey, what's up? Why would a Mexican place be closed on the 4th of July???? He wasn't too happy with that so just stopped in at the local Applebees. He was tired and hurting when we got home.

He said he slept really good last night, but he is not feeling good today. He has a pain in his side that he has never had before...around the ribs. We go to the doc's tomorrow morning so we'll find out what is going on...I'm thinking just healing.

He sees the lung doc the 12th, and most of our follow up will be with him from then on.

We are going to our Mexican place tonight!

Was the mexican open after?

I'm so glad he continues to gain ground, and grateful that you are keeping us up to date.

Today is week 6, and he has been doing pretty good. We see progress every day. Good enough that I am leaving this morning for Orlando (about an hour away) to attend the RWA conference...well I'm not attending the conference, just going for the fun of it and to meet up with some of the gals from SEP's website...and SEP is meeting us today at 2pm, just us!

I think we solved Tim's sleep problems as he was having troubles sleeping flat on his back, I got him a 'bed wedge' and it has helped so much! He now spends 90% of the night in bed instead of his recliner.

He had a bad weekend (16 - 19th) when our son came from TX to visit, but as the surgeon told him when we saw him on the 20th....that is normal. All those nerve endings he cut through and muscles were coming back to life! They did a chest x-ray and it was good.

He has increased his walking (which is hard when it is so hot and humid here) and has gone to the pool in the evenings twice now. He even drove the car for a short distance Sunday. He is better at riding in the car too. He is enjoying going out to dinner and is now eating more.

The sad thing was this past Sat. I had to take him into the walk in clinic because his big toe hurt! He had GOUT! The doc said it was caused by the rapid weight loss (about 20 lbs) since surgery which had an effect on his uric acid increase in his body! It seems to be under control now.

The surgeon said at week 8 he will see a big difference...and he is looking forward to it. He has reached the point of 'I'm tired of this slow recovery'. But he also warned it would be a good 6 months for full recovery, maybe even longer.

His heart rate is doing good (has been high) and is oxygen levels are great...98 - 99%, for one lung that is outstanding!

All those prayers worked! Thank you all!

He got cleared from his heart doc on Friday...the last of his appointments...for a while!

We are trying to decided if he'll be able to make our trip (driving) from FL to CT, then through PA on to his Sub Vet Convention in OH then home (leaving on the 25th of this month and being gone almost 2 weeks!). We did a 'short' trip today to see our friends who live north of Orlando..about 1hr 45min drive. He drove all the way in and did good. We visited for a few hours then took them out to dinner then he drove home. We left home at 10:30am and didn't get home till about 8pm...so it was a long day with no naps for him, but he did pretty good.

But....he has had another cough and last night he said he get cold the hot (I said 'welcome to my world!). When we got home I took his temp...yup, it was just below 100! Looks like I'll be running him into the clinic in the morning.

But he is feeling so much better and starting to feel so much better...it was 8 weeks this week and they say that is the trning point.

Thanks everyone for your concern and all those prayers, I know they worked.

I do so hope you can make the trip. It sounds wonderful. Tim seems to be seizing the reins (make that the steering wheel) and letting the world know he's ready to conquer it. How did it go at the clinic, by the way? Keep us posted.

We did go to the movies to see Eat, Pray, Love and it was great! But I didn't look at how long it was..and it was long, and he got a little uncomfortable sitting in one place so long. But he is doing fine now.

Now I have to get through a Colonoscopy on Tues. then we make the decision weather we go or not on the 25th!

He is putting back on a little of the weight, so that is good and will have to start watching what he eats...and me too!