October 31, 2008 5am

My brother gets to the hospital at 5am to support my dad for his surgery. My dad and Carol arrive at 630am. The surgery starts at 9am instead of 8am. At 11am my brother calls to say dad is still in surgery. 1pm I call my brother back to see what he knows now. No answer. I call my Grandma and she has no new news. At 2pm John calls back. The surgery went well. Dr. Miller is confident he got all the cancer. Dad will stay in ICU overnight just so the doctors and nurses can monitor him and make sure nothing goes wrong. They took a lot less of his stomach than they originally planned. They left a baseball sized stomach instead of a golf ball size.