Surgery Day (by her husband Harold)

Well, today was surgery day. We started off at the butt crack of dawn, not that it really mattered for us to get to the hospital on time since we always seem to wait forever. We were supposed to be there two hours before the scheduled surgery and we arrived about 5 minutes late. From the start we knew something was different with this hospital, since everyone was nice and attentive, go figure, the Hippocratic oath is still used in modern medicine. The anesthesiologist talked her into a epidural which was put in uneventfully... ...Three hours later...I speak to her surgeon and she informs me that Brenda's liver looked great no signs of cancer.Her intestines show no signs of caner, so they removed the section of lower colon which by the way had no visible signs of the tumor, and the surrounding lymph nodes were removed and sent for biopsy. We have to wait for the pathology results on the lymph nodes but I am hoping that this good news will continue. They gave Brenda a (temporary) ostomy, I asked twice that they would be able to reconnect later just to make certain and I received the same response. "Yes temporary" was the response.

She is very tired and is in and out of sleeping. Her pain is being managed every hour with morphine, as well as the epidural.
She was whiter than usual which is pretty white, then she turned gray for a while, but I was not going to leave unless she at least looked normal.

I will be going back tomorrow.
If there are any changes I will do my best to keep everyone informed.

That’s all for now, I'm tired.