I've mentioned before that my father in law has lung cancer. It's inoperable as it's wrapped around his aorta and spread to one other area. He was supposed to begin radiation I think this week or maybe chemo. In any case, on Friday, he passed out in his driveway and broke his ankle. This morning, he went into surgery to set the break I guess and likely threw a blood clot and suffered a heart attack.
They spent a significant amount of time resuscitating him but eventually succeeded and sent him back to ICU. He later suffered more issues and was resuscitated once more. They've told my MIL she should call friends and family because it doesn't look good. They've also asked her if she wants to sign a do not resuscitate.
We're the closest family and we're 5.5 hours away. My MIL doesn't have a lot of support around her. We'll be driving down either tonight or early in the morning.
I just, well, I mean it doesn't look good and I don't have a good feeling about this at all. So yeah, a mess is an understatement I suppose.
I know a lot of people complain about their ILs, mostly with good reason but I swear to you, there are very few men as good as this one. He's a grumpy old school Italian from New Jersey who is such an amazing person. He's been great to me, great to my kids from the moment we met him. Just a really sweet man. Like Paul Sorvino is Goodfellas but without the whole mafia business LOL.
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