1/30/12 - Sunday
Michael (my brother) and family visited around 3pm as Kathy & I
were leaving. Mom was waiting to hear if they were going to do her surgery the next day.
1/31/12 - Monday
9am - I was there when mom went into surgery to have a drain put in the bile duct on the left side of her liver. Dr said they will install the stent in a
few days after the drain has removed as much bile as possible.
Mom came back to her room in a lot of pain around the drain exit site on her right side.
8pm - oncologist stopped by, Dr Norikanda, to check on mom. She explained that they have now classified mom's cancer as Cholangiocarcinoma. At this time it does not appear to have metastasized.
2/3/12 - Friday
1pm - they installed her portacath and on her right side. She has fever again since coming back from surgery.Doc wants her on 10 consecutive days of antibiotics
starting from 1/30/12 before they will consider her going home.
2/7/12 - Tuesday
My morning started at 6:30 when I had to get ready for my day surgery on my sinus'. Surgery was at 8:30am and Joanna had me back at home around 11am. I called mom on the way home and she said they have her schedule for surgery around noon. I rested until mom called and said she was on her way downstairs to surgery. Joanna and I got back in the car and made it to the hospital before mom went into surgery at 1pm.
They removed the drain tube and inserted a stent in her left bile duct.
The Dr said he had a time getting it in there because of the tumor. They used the portacath for both blood and IV with success. Joanna and I waited in mom's room for her to get out of surgery. She was in some pretty bad pain. Jo was a trooper running me around and hanging with me at the hospital with mom. Thanks Jo!
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