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So they did the surgery after all. It was looking like it wouldn’t happen, then they came to get her about 3PM Eastern Time. She just got out of the OR and into the ICU. Mom hasn’t seen her yet.
The doctors took out about a foot of her colon; the colon is about 5 feet long to start with. They also said they were pretty sure it’s cancer. It’s possible they got it all in the section they took out. The oncologist is going to biopsy the colon to see if it went through the wall, and also check out the lymph nodes. Of course, that means it’s possible they didn’t get it all.
meh. I just don’t know how to feel about the whole thing. I’m scared and sad and feel helpless and want to do something, but there isn’t much to do and I feel so far away (I guess that really lumps in with the helpless), but understand this is all a natural part of life…*sigh*