Hello everyone,

I am in the waiting room at the Huntsman Cancer Hospital and I just got the chance to talk to Dov's liver surgeon. The surgery is over and it sounds as though things went well.

Because of the tumor placement they decided that it would be safest to remove the entire right half of the liver. He should have enough for adequate liver function and it will regrow to normal size in the next 6-8 weeks. They also removed his gall bladder, both because he had some stones and because it was in the way of some of the area that they needed to get to.

He did lose more blood than they would have liked, approximately a liter, and because he is anemic from the chemo they are still concerned that he might need a blood transfusion. They will keep an eye on him for the next couple of days to determine if that is going to be necessary. The good news is that we have an in with the blood folks (thanks to everyone at ARUP - you guys have been wonderful).

The other good news is that they poked around Dov's innards and didn't see any evidence of disease. They will know more when we get the pathology results sometime around Tuesday and they will make more decisions on further treatment at that point.

So everything is going as well as we could ask. Dov will be here at Huntsman for the next 5-7 days and then he should be free to go home.

We are so grateful to everyone for all the love and support. Thank you all!