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Ralph was released from the hospital this afternoon. The doctors feel that they have his heart rate regulated, but it was a tough job! With a-fib you do not have a steady heart rate - it can fluctuate greatly. He was spiking to over 140 and they wanted those spikes to be no higher than 110. He was running a marathon 24/7 and that was not good going into surgery. We meet the surgeon on Thursday and will know when surgery will be after that. The doctors think probably the following Monday, but we will see. He has an excellent prognosis - there were no cancer cells detected in his lymph nodes on the CT scan, so they know it has not spread anywhere else. There may still be some cancer cells in the lymph nodes when they test them after surgery however. To show on the CT scan, it has to be very involved to be detected. He had been getting a regular colonoscopy and we thought this was his 10 year recall. Then we found out his 10 years was last summer. But, if he had it last summer, they would not have found this tumor - it grew in a year or less. Then if he had not had the a-fib with blood thinners that caused the bleeding, he would have waited for his next recall and we would have a very different outcome. It paid for us to lose that year!