Day 26

Does this look like a guy who just came out of surgery?  This has been a pretty amazing day!

We started off not knowing what the day would bring for sure. We had just been told by our nurse that she had spoke with the gals in the OR, and that they had Rob's name as a possible surgery, they just didn't have him on the schedule.  Shortly after, Dr. Smith, the surgeon came in and said he had looked at the CT scan they had done on him this morning and his pancreas was looking pretty good. But, even though his pancreas numbers were down, his white count and billirubin were up again. He just really thought that getting his gallbladder out now was the answer to expediting his healing.  So within about an hour, Rob was headed to surgery.

From the moment he got back to his room, his voice was strong, his color was better, he was more alert and the severe headache he had been complaining of for the last day was gone. No doubt he was a bit beat up and wiped out from having his gallbladder removed, and the two-fer of having his hernia repaired at the same time, but overall he just seemed better. Dr. Smith tells us if everything goes as well as he hopes, he'll be sprung from this place by Tuesday.

Once he was out and settled into his room, with a grateful heart I headed across the street to mass - to thank God for the many blessings of the last few days; for giving us great doctors and nurses, for seeing Rob through surgery and putting him on the road to recovery, and for all the love and concern we've been receiving from friends and family. God is good!