C is Home

Those who see my facebook posts are more up-to-date than blog readers. Because the blog’s mission is to only share good news, I held off on posting to on C’s surgery. My caution, in hindsight, was unwarranted.

C’s surgery went amazingly well. The surgeons started early; they needed less time than planned. So she ended up in recovery a full two hours earlier than expected.

C’s time in recovery was minimal and smooth. C has had previous experiences with difficult recoveries coming out of anesthesia; all I can say at this time is that the docs have C completely dialed in. They put her under smoothly, they bring her out with comfort and grace.

The surgeon reported to me that the tissues they removed looked to be healthy and cancer-free. Now, normally you don’t want to hear that the surgeon took out healthy tissue – you want to hear that they’ve LEFT the healthy tissue and taken out obviously diseased, problematic tissue. Point taken. This is a little different.

C’s procedure about six weeks ago removed a polyp that turned out to be pre-cancerous. The doc’s recommendation was to remove the now-unnecessary organ where the polyp was located* as soon as possible, so as to 1) ensure there wasn’t more cancer in there, and 2) to generally simplify C’s post-cancer life.

Given the whole picture, the removal of generally healthy stuff is good news.

C moved from recovery to a room at about 6pm; so an overnight stay was the expectation. C stayed over, and came home about 5pm the following day – yesterday.

She’s getting around effectively, though gingerly. She’s not tackling stairs. And, if she gets a little behind on her pain meds, she definitely gets told by her body why she’s supposed to take the pain meds. She’s loopier than normal; it’s a little frustrating but also incredibly endearing…

Beyond that, everything’s fine. Like I said, she’s not taking the stairs, so she slept on the couch last night. I’m thinking she’ll be making her way upstairs by tomorrow night.

 

* see how I dance to avoid naming body parts? Astute readers can connect the dots adequately.