Be gone with you, liver!

Ok, so here's the latest. The surgery was considered a success. They removed the entire right lobe, my gallbladder, and a large portion of my left lobe. (70% of my liver in total) That's more than they had originally planned, but the feel really confident that they got all of the cancer with the exception of the one tumor that has to be zapped electrically. They actually call the procedure "microwave oblation" I'm not sure how Vinney Johnson was involved...

That procedure with have to wait for another day. They used a chevron a shaped incision. Its about 2 FEET wide! There a 22 sutures holding is shut. It looks pretty horrible. I've been sleeping a ton lately.  They have me in some pretty heavy narcotics right now. So I swing back a forth between so stoned, u can barely talk, and do much pain, I can barley talk. (guess which one I like better!)

The geneticist came in to talk to me in the hospital. If you recall, there were a series of tests that they wanted to run to see if I had a predisposed mutation that would have led to all
of this.  Turns out that the answer is yes, but in a somewhat surprising way. I came up positive on a marker that they have only been testing in men as of vert recently. They only saw this one in women with breast cancer in the past, but now are seeing it in men with prostrate and colon cancer. That still does not mean this is how I got it, they will never know for sure, but now that u have the mutation, my sister and parents need to be checked. I may be the "patient 0" or it could have come from father up the line. My parent need to be check so the proper set of cousins are warned. It's very possible that no one else will have this mutation, and even if they do, it's not a guarantee of getting cancer. So we'll wait and see on that one.

I meet with the surgeon next week to get passed back to the oncologist. Still need colon surgery and that last liver procedure. And more chemo... Overall, things are going pretty good. Better than expected. Thanks for all the prayers. I'm doing so much better than I deserve though all this.

Cheers!