Blood in urine, any advice?

Julie, if your Dad eats beets the day before, it will look like blood in the urine when it is just the liquid from the beets.

It scared me the first time I saw that, then I remembered I had beets in a salad earlier on.

Needs urinalyis to check for infection, then possibly urologist to check for bladder cancer. However, blood in urine can often be harmless, caused by minor trauma to abdomen. If your dad is on any kind of blood thinner, blood in urine is a common side effect. Even if bladder cancer is found, a lot of bladder cancers are low grade and easy to remove (under very mild anesthesia or just local) with no need for further treatment.

Call his doctor.