Friends,
We talked with the surgeon a little while ago. He reported that he removed a section of Mother's colon that contained a tumor that had been showing up on the scans. He also removed the tumor that was in the abdominal wall that they had also known about, and they removed the omentum. The omentum is the fatty pad/layer that is in the front part of your abdomen that is often affected by cancers like the type Mother has.
They were not able to continue with a complete debulking of the entire abdominal cavity as there was too much disease present. Most of this remaining is in tiny pieces/patches that were not detectable on the scans. Since the debulking could not be completed they did not do the heated chemo wash.
Mother will be in the hospital for about a week until she is recovered enough to go home. Of course, the recovery from this surgery will be much less than it would have been from the other much larger surgery. The plan is for her to recover from this surgery and to restart chemotherapy as before. The surgeon feels that she was responding well to the chemotherapy before this and that it should continue to be helpful.
They have just called for us from the recovery room. Thank you for your prayers and concern.
Sabra
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