Heaven let your light shine down

I went to my dad's follow up appointment today, well most of our crew did, those of us who know us personally know we don't do things alone. So I was the note taker/ question asker because my mom didn't want to miss anything, and I watched the doctors face as he began to speak and I grabbed Sarah's hand. He told us that they did find cancer in his lymph nodes and in order for there to be a decent survival rate they would have to have removed at least 13 nodes.. my dad's surgeon removed 19!!!!!! I felt myself begin to grin from ear to ear.. AND only 1 of the 19 had cancerous cells! They have now given him a 70-80% chance of survival! We could not be more pleased! He will go and have a port put in his neck for his months of treatments, AND NOOOO radiation, the chemo should be able to wipe this out! See what a fighter my daddy is! The only thing that could stop him now is a reoccurrence of the cancer in which case his doctor said, there would be not much else he could do BUT our family is happy and thankful and blessed. I called tonight to see if they made it home and after all these weeks of no sleep... my dad was asleep, finally able to rest.. so port will be put in next week and chemo will start soon there after and in the meantime he wants to go back to work!!! So that is my update, someone definitely was shining down on us and what a miracle to go from such a grim prognoses to this!