Putting in the tube

Yesterday dad told me today he was going to need Philippians 3:12 today, focusing on the second part of the verse.

¹² Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.

Last night we had a nice visit with Kamm who brought Chinese (for some reason dad really wanted egg rolls and fried rice in the afternoon) a wonderful photo of mom and dad dancing at my wedding last summer, (has it really been a year?) and other fun gifts.
Dad had much more energy than the last few days on Tuesday as we took more liquid off on Monday, we caught him smiling a few times and I had him outside and walking twice. This was wonderful to see since today he was admitted to the hospital where they are putting in a tube to aid in placing talcum powder between the lung and the lining of the lung where all the fluid has been building up. Thus yesterday gave us all hope that if he had less liquid on his lung then he would be happier and have more drive to push through this nasty phase in his life.
Dad has spent most of the day today sleeping as the tube is uncomfortable and they have given him lots of morophine. The doctor should be in later today to work on part two, inserting the powder. Mom said he ate about 3/4 of the amount he used to eat at lunch so eating was good. We hope that everyone continues to pray for us and especially him. Thank you everyone for you prayers and thoughts. We aprecaite the calls, emails, notes, and prayers.
Thanks
Amanda, Bill, and Sue