OK...have an update on my Dad, for anyone reading who might care... :)

Dad had the surgery yesterday to remove the ol' prostate (or prostrate, as he keeps calling it). It went well, no complications (yet), and they checked out the area around it while they had him opened up and found no signs of the cancer having spread to adjacent lymph nodes or anything around there. He was groggy and half-awake when I left the hospital in the afternoon.

Today, he sounds a lot better (over the phone) and they actually fed him some liquid diet stuff, so that's good. He could, realistically, be home Thursday or Friday, which is nice. But then it's a long recovery, as abdomenal surgery would appear to be.

So, just giving you all an update there...he's doing well, from what I know, and that's where we're at.