Hi all –
Update is that I just talked with Dr. Curley and Hilary’s all done. He said it went great, she’s doing fine, and there was no bleeding and no transfusion needed! He had originally planned to take out the left lobe of her liver and a slice of the right, but when they could see her liver, it was apparent that the 4 tumors were all in the right lobe. Her liver was bit ‘torqued’ (twisted…but this is not a bad thing) so what they had seen on the recent scans didn’t accurately represent where the masses were. So, the procedure was a little different than planned, but it went well. He looked all around the region and took out all detectable cancer. Since the right lobe is bigger, more of her liver is gone (about 2/3) than was expected. But, because the liver regenerates, it will be back in action in no time (6 weeks or so). Amazing medical fact: with a healthy liver, you can remove 80% of it with no problem. He also took out her gall bladder and all the lymph nodes in the area as was planned. Big sigh of relief! I’ll get to see her in about an hour.
She’ll be low energy and tired for a while as the liver grows back, but after about 6 weeks, she should be pretty much fully back in it. We now have loads of tissue to analyze so we will be getting it to various labs which will inform the next steps.
Thank you for all the well wishes, prayers, and checking in today!