Thank you for the message. Well its next week and dad is still with us. I have been staying with my parents and it has been a very emotional week. The changes in my dad are daily. It is soooooooo hard to watch my big strong dad just waste away. He has been such a trooper though this all. I just can pray that the suffering is almost over. someone said to me the other day that maybe we would get one more Christmas and I feel bad about hoping that last Christmas's memories will be the ones I think of when I think of dad. keep us in your prayers.