Update: My sister who works in the medical field (back office - not nurse) worked with the orthopedic surgeon to get him discharged today. The cardiologist wanted to keep him indefinitely in the hospital, but she was able to get him released. He went by ambulance to the Rehab Center, which is were he has been a volunteer for the last 20 years. The Rehab folks are all anxious to help him and we think he's in good hands. There's nothing they can do about the heart, but at rehab they can work on his hip and his exercise and getting him out of bed and on the road to recovery.
He could still pass away at any moment, but it wont' be from atrophy in a hospital bed. Go Dad.
While never in combat, he served during WWII and was among other things POW commandant over Japanese POWs at Moody AFB, and NCOIC at Hickham Field, HI, at the end of the war. He had orders to be the second wave ashore if we invaded Japan, so I for one am happy that Japan surrenders, else I might have never been conceived. (yeah nukes!) And while he only tells a few stories of his time in the service, I think a lot of it was a MASH like experience. He never actually "went" to boot camp, but graduated by reading "the book". He taught himself to shoot and to fly and had aviator wings as an NCO....Piper Cub, but still. I've cleaned out his house this past week and will post some pictures. Pictures, btw, that I had never ever seen of my dad during WWII.
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