So far so good.

A very early day for Trela started at 5:30 today. Check in was at 6 with surgery starting at 8:00 AM. 10 and 1/2 hours later she was finished and rolled into recovery, and just before 10pm, into her room. Unlike last time, she didn't look as if someone had punched her in the face. (last time one of the tubes had pressed her lip against the sharp portion of her teeth and she had a very swollen lip) and her foot didn't hurt.

Neither of the surgeons reported any complications, and based on what could be seen in the OR pathology, there was no sign of angiosarcoma anywhere, even right next to where the most recent recurrence was. Yea!

Trela and I had said Monday morning that we just needed to get through the next 3 days with no bad news. So far, so good.

Carpe Diem.

Eric

Mayo Day

Waiting to meet with the plastic surgeon (who will do the bulk of the work in tomorrow's 6 hour plus surgery), but just wanted to update -- my CT scan of my lungs was clean, as expected, but still a relief. Met with the oncology surgeon who did my mastectomy and will do the resection tomorrow, and that went fine. I've been cleared health wise to have surgery, so I guess it's on! I still have to see plastics, as I mentioned, and my actual oncologist, but my radiation oncologist was very pleased with my skin's healing thus far.

We report for surgery at about 5:45, the actual "procedure" will be about 8:30, take about 6 hours plus two hours in recovery. It's anticipated they'll make me stay 3-5 nights in the hospital, which puts me home Friday at the earliest! Longer than expected, but hey, they're the experts!

Carpe diem!--Trela