A job promotion

Hi all, Marcia here with some additional details on the events of the day.  Gary was in surgery about six and a half hours.   Somewhere in that time a part of his small intestine was notified that, due to a job vacancy, he had been promoted to the position of Stomach.   As we know, this title carries a certain amount of responsibility with it, so he’s being given a few days to get used to his new coworker, Esophagus.  Later in the week, they’ll do a swallow test to make sure he is ready for the job.

When the doctor talked to us, all reports were good.  He removed a lot of lymph nodes, but felt that none of them looked like they should be cause for worry. The pathology report will be back Wednesday or Thursday.   There was no indication that the cancer had spread and when the margins going into the esophagus were checked, they were fine.

Gary will probably be out of ICU tomorrow.  Until then they’ll be watching over him closely just to make sure that nothing comes unstapled or otherwise goes awry.   When Anne first went in to see him, when he came up from recovery, she said he looked good.  He will probably not remember looking good.

Molly is also doing better.  She’s still in the hospital but her heart rate and fever are down. They’ll know more about her specific condition in the next day or two.

Anne is hanging in there, but needless to say, she has had a lot on her plate.   They both appreciate all of your notes, thoughts, and prayers.

As more information is available, I’ll post more.  I’m sure you’ll all be glad to have Gary’s sense of humor back.  For me, I’m just very, very happy that everything went so well today.