Surgery went well yesterday! It took exactly 3hours just like they said. Everything went according to plan except they did have to remove some muscle. Not fun for recovery or my husband's beautiful calf muscle! They removed his fibula bone and any other "stuff" that they found. The MRI had shown that some of it had gone into the tissue outside the bone. Angie (Mike's Mom) asked Dr. Randall what it looked like. He said it resembled snot and is the color blue. How weird is that? We're figuring that they got all the blue stuff because they got clean margins. That means they're pretty sure they got everything around the malignant areas and left nothing cancerous! We should have pathology back in a couple of weeks. It takes longer with bone because they have to decalcify it.

Mike has a very HIGH pain tolerance. In all his past surgeries he has refused to have pain medicine after the anesthetic wore off. His blood pressure yesterday started to go way high. Angie knew it was due to the pain and she was right!! Once they figured out the best medicine (dilaudid) for him, he started doing alot better.

Mike has a new understanding of what women go through with all their waxing. One of the funniest things all day was when he got his EKG done pre-surgery. The tech (zero personality) came in to do it and thought he'd be fine without shaving the hair on his chest. After the first test it said they couldn't get an accurate reading so one of the prongs had to be removed. Without any warning the tech ripped it off. Mike screamed Owwwww! The tech proceeded to hand me a "HUGE" chunk of Mike's hair. Mike said "you know that'll probably be the worst part of the day." The guy kept apologizing but I couldn't stop laughing. Let's just say he didn't quite understand our humor.

We thought Mike would come home today but his drain is bleeding too much so it'll happen tomorrow. The pain medication is working but when it starts to wear off you can tell he's in quite a bit of pain. Hotel Huntsman is an AMAZING place!! We get room service any time we want, and the view outside our window is the mountain side. I asked about the spa (joking) and to my surprise they said there is a massage therapist on our floor. We have a family laundry room, kitchen, changing rooms and showers!! It's pretty neat to have a hospital be so accommodating!! We feel so blessed to be here!!!

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