Half Full Friday - on a Saturday!

Half Full Friday is a series of weekly posts that Eyegirl originally started in June 2009.  We believe that a lot of our happiness is determined by our attitude about the things that happen to us.  So by participating, I'm deciding to see the glass as half full instead of half empty; I'm choosing to concentrate on the positives instead of dwelling on the negatives.  The Half Full Friday posts are a way to do just that.  They're a list of the things in my life that have brought me happiness over the past week.  I'm determined to find something good in each day.  Are you?

For the next week, I'd like to challenge each of you to keep a list of at least one thing that brought you happiness each day.  Be sure to link up here once you've posted your list!  (This isn't a blog hop so please only link up if you've participated by posting your happy list.  Thanks!)

~I'm happy because...

My daddy's home from the hospital!

Thanks to Sarge, I now have over twice the number of participants as I did last year for my Third Annual Doggone Dog Swap!  There's still plenty of time to get in on the action if you're interested!

I've gotten some new followers this week!  Welcome! 

My computer apparently didn't like Internet Explorer 9 any better than I did -- it was gone once I restarted my computer!

I got my haircut today!

While it's not exactly bright and sunshiny today, at least it's not raining!

Much thanks to everyone for your kind comments on my last post.  My father is feeling considerably better now than he was when he was admitted to the hospital.  He's still got a long ways to go though before he's completely healthy.

Source:  weheartit

To make a very long story short, the doctors found one problem and got it taken care of.   We thought he was good to go and his plan was to come home yesterday morning.  But then they discovered something on an x-ray and decided to do a CT scan.  That showed even more than what the x-ray caught.  My father has spots on both lungs and his liver.  The doctor said it's very likely cancer only they aren't sure what kind yet.  They tried to do a biopsy on him but he couldn't lay the way they needed him to because it was too painful as he has a bad back.  They couldn't knock him out to do it because for some reason or another they need him to be awake and coherent during the procedure.  I vaguely recall them saying they'd need him to take deep breaths for them or something.  They allowed him to come home late yesterday afternoon and he'll go back up this coming Friday and they'll try something else.  Once they have the biopsy, they'll be able to determine for certain that he has cancer and what kind it is.

If it really is cancer like the doctor thinks it is, this will be the third kind he's had now.   I really disliked my father a great deal as a child and as an adult when I lived with him but we've actually become much closer now that I live on my own.  I truly hope it isn't cancer or if it is, that the treatment won't be too difficult on him.  I'm not ready to lose him yet. 

I don't think it's all sunk in yet.

I've had trouble this past week with commenting on certain blogs.  So if I'm not commenting, please just know that I'm still reading.  Has anyone else had an issue with this or is it just me?  I can comment on some but not all.