Monday, June 16, 2008

The Rib is gone

Sorry it took so long for me to post. I had the surgery and a portion of the right 10th rib was removed. While the surgeon was in there..the blob on the scan was actually a hernia allowing the liver to squeeze into my chest cavity...and while he was looking at my liver he noticed a small spot on the liver. He removed the spot, which was cancer, fixed the hernia, put some prosthetic mesh material where the rib was and closed me up.
This was a very painful sugery, I was out of work for about 4 weeks. Doing better now but still get very stiff and sore at times.
Now I wait. The next CT scan is July 21st. Maybe I can get an extended period without having to deal with this cancer.