July 9, 2007

Well today is the big day!!!!!!! Surgery lasted only 3 hours (from 1pm - 4pm) and Adrian was immediately transferred to ICU after the surgery. Surgeons informed me that the surgery ran quite smoothly which explains why it took less time than expected. They were able to remove the left adrenal gland and the tumor in the pancreatic head. The one in liver, however, was too deep to cut the whole piece and so they cut it in half and send it to the lab for biopsy. The surgeons suspect it was dead cell (already calcified due to chemo) as it was pretty hard. Let's hope it really WAS a dead cell and so it will be benign to stay inside the body. The same applies to the other two little ones in his right liver lobe. Baby was pretty tired after the surgery and was living on Morphine & Saline. He also had an NG tube running from his nose to tummy for feeding in the next couple of days. Adrian was in good spirit (he's too young to know what really had happened!) and we are so proud of him!


Adrian is ready to go for surgery... photo taken at pre-op