Surgery Success

we just spoke with Dr. Aloia (Stacie's surgeon) and he said the surgery went great. it took about 3 hours with most of the time being spent collecting tissue/lymph nodes for further examination. she had a lot of scar tissue from the previous surgery which made digging them out more difficult, but he also said it was expected. the lymph nodes were not enlarged or suspicious to the eye, but the biopsy results will let us know for sure (it will be ready in about 7 days).

as for the tumor itself, he said, "it was really small" and showed us a picture of it on his iphone. they got huge margins (thankfully we didn't have to worry about that issue this time around...) and saw no other signs of tumors or growth anywhere in the liver.

all in all, it sounds like a success. we'll be able to see her in the recovery room within the hour and then she'll be moved to an overnight recovery room for more monitoring. i'll continue posting if anything major comes up, and hopefully Stacie will feel good enough to post in the next few days.

thanks for your continued thoughts and prayers!

- eric