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The surgeon found what he thought he would find attached to the inside of his ribs, a softball sized, calcified, malignant tumor. He said it had a low metastasis number (not sure how to phrase that correctly). That's a good thing. There were spots on his lung. They took a small section of his lung. They have more tests to do before they know if cancer treatments or any other kind of treatments are necessary.
My dad was fully awake within 2 hours of surgery. That seems strange to me. It seems the few surgery stories I have heard, the patient was out for the rest of the day, and when they did occasionally come around, they were groggy, out of it, and later had no memory of it. But he was fully aware and coherent. When the morphine would fade, he would start shaking, his body suffering mild shock from the pain. He has an epidural in his back, but it is not quite enough.
Yet, this is quite expected. So far, considering, he is doing very well. Since he was still in ICU, visiting hours ended at 7pm. We are headed back to the Surgery Center in an hour.
The surgeon found what he thought he would find attached to the inside of his ribs, a softball sized, calcified, malignant tumor. He said it had a low metastasis number (not sure how to phrase that correctly). That's a good thing. There were spots on his lung. They took a small section of his lung. They have more tests to do before they know if cancer treatments or any other kind of treatments are necessary.
My dad was fully awake within 2 hours of surgery. That seems strange to me. It seems the few surgery stories I have heard, the patient was out for the rest of the day, and when they did occasionally come around, they were groggy, out of it, and later had no memory of it. But he was fully aware and coherent. When the morphine would fade, he would start shaking, his body suffering mild shock from the pain. He has an epidural in his back, but it is not quite enough.
Yet, this is quite expected. So far, considering, he is doing very well. Since he was still in ICU, visiting hours ended at 7pm. We are headed back to the Surgery Center in an hour.
