My Dad’s Cancer Update

Posted by on 28 Oct 2008 | Tagged as: my life.

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, my dad had a very slow-growing prostate cancer, which was in the very early stages.

Yesterday, one of the best doctors in the world, 35 year old Dr. Weiss (who is also one of the few doctors who is both a urologist and an oncologist), removed my dad’s prostate through a robotics technique that uses only five small incisions instead of a very large abdominal incision, which is much, much less intrusive (they don’t rip apart all your muscles in order to get to the prostate).

The surgery went really well, and all is the best-case scenario.
Last night, Dad was doing laps around his unit at the hospital. The first time they had him up and about, they encouraged him to do one lap. When he finished one, he wanted to do a second lap. Once the second was done, he did a third lap!
He is set to be released from the hospital sometime early this morning.

Just a reminder, there are well more than 1,000 people who call New Hope home, so instead of calling them at home (they have turned their answering machine off), please visit my dad’s blog at RalphDiehl.com for the latest info on how he’s doing.

Thanks for your continued prayer.

2 Responses to “My Dad’s Cancer Update”

  1. on 30 Oct 2008 at 3:25 pm 1.Amanda said …

    Good to hear – thanks for the update.
    Amanda

  2. on 31 Oct 2008 at 11:51 am 2.Matthew said …

    Hey Nathan- check out my new blog at matthewharshbarger.blogspot.com

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