I went and saw Maria today and by the time many of you read this post you may have already talked to her or have gone to see her, but here is a small update for those of you who have not. This is straight from Maria's mouth...the doctor removed the right side of her colon, he removed the entire left lobe of the liver and removed numerous tumors from the right side and ambulated the rest. All in all he removed 40% of the liver. He also removed the gall bladder because it had stones in it and he removed all of the lymph nodes in the abdominal region. This was far less than he originally planned for. From the scans he thought there were tumors on her lung which there was NOT and he thought he was going to have to remove at least 60% of the liver. So this was great news!
When Maria came out of the anesthesia and realized that she was not in the ICU she was worried that they opened her up and that it was so bad and they could not do anything for her so they sewed her back up. When she realized that this was in fact not the case she was amazed and relieved. She did not have to go to ICU because she only lost "a coke can and a half" of blood. Also, it was not as intense as originally planned.
As we all know Maria is a fighter and she is truly a walking miracle and speaking of walking she walked five laps around the nursing station and was able to sit the chair. She will be out of the hospital before we know it!
If you want to be in contact with Maria she asked that you call her at the hospital instead of on her cell phone so that she does not use up her minutes. Her phone number at the hospital is
293-5707 and she is in room #951 at the James Cancer Hospital.
We love you Maria!
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