Knocked it out of the park

All in all it was a good day for Nancy.  They took Nancy back at 12:00 pm today to prep her for surgery which started at 12:40 pm and ended at about 4:15 pm.  Her surgeon Dr. Rourke and I spoke shortly thereafter and she said everything went perfect.  

Dr. Rourke removed 5 lymph nodes from Nancy's right underarm and tested 4 of them.  The test she ran in the operating room came back negative for any traces of cancer!  She said that that test was about 85% accurate, given the circumstances of such a fast turn around time during the surgery.  That was the best news of the day.  The lymph nodes were sent off to pathology for a more accurate test which should give us results in 5 days.  Dr. Rourke was confident that the pathology reports would reflect her same findings.

Dr. Rourke's part of the surgery took about 3 hours, then Dr. Gordley, the plastic surgeon, was up for about a 45 minute procedure to put the expander in and to prep everything for the final surgery next May/June.  After he was done he came out and said that there were no issues with anything that he had to do and that he felt really good with the results.

Nancy stayed in recovery for about 45 minutes before moving into her room.  More than likely she will be able to go home early Wednesday.

I took the girls home around 8:00 pm so they could finish their homework and get cleaned up for bed and by the time I came back at 8:45 pm Nancy was eating a turkey sandwich and some cheese!  Such a good sign that she had her appetite back and was able to stomach everything.  

It's 9:45 pm right now and she is sound asleep resting, making up for such a long day.

I will stay tonight for another hour or so then back home for the night.  I will be back at the hospital tomorrow morning once I get the girls off to school to keep you in the loop as her recovery progresses.

Thanks to everyone for their love and support.

Matt