Dr Visser came to talk--Updated

Quick Summary from Dr. Visser

• Surgery was successful.
• Surgery was at the max limit of what can be done to remove the potential cancerous materials.
• Overall she is very stable and he feels very good about her condition.
• Issue is to get her through the next few days. Simple things like getting her to stand up and to walk are biggies for her recovery.
• Lots of healing for all the reconnected plumbing to become solid connections.
• Biggest issue right now is to get the liver to restart and rebuild itself. He expects the liver to stumble and she'll turn jaundiced for a few days and then if the liver properly starts, she is on her way.
• The path reports will be available in five to seven days. They should not be the focus of Mary's energy, she should be focused on accomplishing the basics to start and continue the healing process.
• He was able to connect the intestine to two bile ducts in the remaining liver. The remaining ducts were 2mm in size (2mm is 0.07874 inches or approximately 1/12th of an inch.)
• She must avoid catching any infections. Basically, a lung infection or urinary infection could overwhelm the liver restart/rebuild process.
• He thought chemo and radiation therapy might start as early as four weeks from now. He did put gold along the edge of the liver where he cut so the radiation treatment can be targeted with a high degree of confidence.
• In spite of the surgical success, he was very careful to say she had to recover from the surgery successfully (step 2) and then, they had to make sure the cancer was gone (step 3). Because they did confirm cancerous materials in a cystic node, step 3 needs to be moderately aggressive.

After recovery, she is moving into a regular room, not ICU.

And the status color going from red to green was in error. She is now in recovery. She better be, the doc was roaming the halls looking for me.