Surgery

We met with the surgeon yesterday and dad is scheduled to have surgery on Thursday, September 24Th bright and early in the morning. The surgery will take 3-4 hours and then he will be in recovery. He will be in the hospital for 5-10 days depending on what all they do in the surgery and how he is recovering.

The goal is for them to be able to go in and take out the tumor and the stomach along with surrounding tissue, lymph nodes and pieces of other organs. They would like to try to save a viable piece of the stomach to create a small stomach sack. However it is more likely that they will take it all and re route the intestines to attach to the esophagus.

If they get in there and the cancer has spread which at this point it does not appear on the Cat Scan that it has, they will put a feeding tube in and close him up. Both of the doctors say they do not know what they are going into for sure. Unfortunately we can not see everything on a Cat Scan. However they did see that the fluid that was on in abdomen is gone from the chemo which tells us that chemo did work at least a little!

Dad is very anxious as we all are. We are keeping our thoughts positive as we process this next step in the fight.

Next Thursday will be along day for us, so I will do my best to post the surgery update as soon as I get a chance. You are welcome to text me Thurs and I will get you information as soon as I can 425-280-5481. However I won't be able to take calls in the hospital, so texting will be your best bet until the website is updated.

Keep your love and prayers coming!