That's What I Call a "Smooth Move"!!!!

Honey and I are currently sitting in my hospital room where I slept last night, impatiently waiting for whoever has the power to "write the orders" to discharge me!

The procedure went smoothly. Were there were once 4 tumors (on the underside of the left lobe of my liver) one year ago this month, 6 months later the docs only saw 3, or maybe 2 on the most recent (early December) CT scan. Yesterday when Dr. G saw me after the surgery he said there was ONLY ONE!!! Which means the chemo is working on those little, more managable tumors that popped up! He did the RFA on that one and then just a little bit on the tissue nearby where the other ones once were, just to be safe.

In addition to that one tumor removal, he also removed 1.5 liters of "fluid" that was surrounding the liver and general area. He has "sent the fluid off" to be tested for cancer in it but he seriously doubts that it does. So where did this fluid come from? Well, remember when I had the last chemoembo he also removed a liter of fluid. This time, he thinks that it's some excess fluid that slowly seeps out of my veins due to low albumin levels (the protien that secures the veins shut) which is, in turn, due to the chemotherapy. Such a domino effect! He said that if I feel like my abdomen is distended again, then it's probably full of fluid again and that I can just email him and he'll be happy to just go back in there to drain it. Sounds like a piece of cake and yet, when I stop to think... we are talking about my BODY here! Jeeez that's too weird!

The procedure took about an hour or so. The anesthesia was a trip! It was just as how remembered: one minute the anesth. nurse was starting to put the mask on my face in the operating room and the next minute, I woke up in Recovery!!! Seriously!

I've got a fat bottom lip. It looks like two large blisters or something but they don't feel like blisters. They just feel fat and sore. The anesthesia nurse briefly mentioned that something happened when she was removing the reperatory tube from my throat. Unfortunately, she blurted that out as soon as I woke up in recover and then she disappeared! She had used the word "burn" but WTF? I don't know how this happened! It'l get batter, I'm sure and I'll just put my Hello Kitty ice pack on them for a while. But I will be calling or emailing Dr. G to ask him what happened. It's not like we're gonna sue or anything over it. I just need to know what to tell people when they ask! LOL

I am not feeling pain. Well, when someone or I touches the puncture sites (through the sterile gauze) that hurts, of course. But I don't hurt anywhere else! Some kind of nurse or doctor or resident or whatever has come into my room about every 1 or 2 to ask me a series of questions, one of which is "do you feel any pain?" And I keep saying, "No." They keep asking. I think they're surprised that I'm feeling so well while I take up room here on the Oncology floor of the hospital!

Before the procedure, the nurse put a scopolimene patch behind my ear to combat any potentil nausea and other symptom that I've since forgotten. Good thing she warned me before hand that it can make a person see double or blurry-eyed cause that's how I've been since last night! I can't read my book, I can barely read the room service menu, and I can't play my DS! Typing this blog is even a challenge since every letter I type I see double! The vision issue is subsiding, slowly but surely, cause now I can actually make out words if I stare at them long enough. LOL Talk about WEIRD!

Well, back to waiting with Honey for my discharge papers so we can get the heck outta here!

(not painful but very tired...and can't wait to get home to our Furry Kids and our own comfy bed!) Talk more to ya soon!