Hello all. I have a new update on our lil bro.
Fri. he started with pain in his left lung that shot through to the shoulder blade. On Sun. he finally told us about it. But he managed to make it to his grandsons wrestling meet. On Mon. morning he was in severe pain. We thought maybe it was pneumonia.  We took him into ER and they did a cat scan. The dr. wanted to rule out a blood clot and check for pneumonia. He had neither. It's the cancer causing this and now his lymph nodes have fluid in them. They admitted him as his oxygen was only 84%. So he will be on it for the duration of his life. His oncology nurse told him he needed hospice now and she will no longer be involved.  She hugged us all and we all thanked her for all she helped us with in palliative care. We are going to miss her.
They have been uping his morphine today. So tomorrow he goes home. Hospice will meet with us  and tell us what they all do. I pretty much know as I went through it with my stepson Todd and our younger sister. I know they are wonderful. They will bring him a hospital bed, wheelchair and oxygen machine plus a portable he will take home from here. He will stop all of his meds except his thyroid pill and pain meds as they stop taking his vitals too.
It's been a tough and sad couple days. We knew it was inevitable, but it came on so sudden. Reality hit us all. Because he opted out of treatment he has had a good year . She told him if you have a good day go do something and he will we will make sure of that.
So I will give you updates along the way. I ask you if you would send up some prayers for him.
Thanks everyone.