Trogdor, sliced diced and spiced!

At long last, I figured out how to get access to Colleen's Blog to post an update. The moral is,don't ever rely on a heavily medicated woman to give correct information.
In her previous post she gave all of the recent details about her treatment so I'll pick up from last Thursday.
I should preface this with the fact that during the past week we have had record low temps in the 20's and the piped in Colleen's house froze, really throwing off her preparation plans. Needless to say, Her Mommy will have some house cleaning and laundry to keep her busy while she is here helping out after the surgery.
Thursday I picked her up from work and we went to OHSU for her pre op appointments. They asked the same million questions that they do everything and checked her over to make sure she was able to go through with the surgery. Dr. Pommier came in and went over with us what would happen the next day.
Friday Morning Colleen and I were at the hospital bright and early at 9:00 to play the hurry up and wait game. By 10:30 Colleen was ready for surgery. An anesthesiologist came in to tell her what they would be doing and told her that if she would like, they would put in an epidural after the surgery for pain abatement that could stay in for up to 7 days. As I was hyperventilating with happiness for her she turned her head and asked me if I thought she should get it. "YES!" I hollered, "Score to be you!"
She went into surgery at 1:37 in the afternoon, by the way, winning for me two chocolate eclair from the diabetic bakery because Colleen ran a contest with the women from our "Girl's Night" as to the time the surgery would be scheduled and the time it actually happened. There should have been an additional category for how long she was on the table because it ended up being 7-8 hours!
The OR nurse called me every two hours saying, she is doing well, but it will be a while yet. Finally at 8:45 I got to talk to the Doc. He said that he had been able to totally clean off her liver, removing about 30 "spots" ranging in size from pea to marble. It will regenerate very quickly. He then went looking for the primary in her small intestines. This takes hours because he has to manually feel along the whole length looking the small pea sized tumor. He finally found it in the last few inches. On thing that the primary carcinoid does is release the hormone serotonin which makes the intestine walls go from feeling like soft cloth to shoe leather, it then contracts and shrinks and tangles. He had to take this whole small tangled mass out. In order to get a good vascular connection for the resection he took out about 3 feet of intestine. He was very happy with the results and said that Trogdor has been vanquished! (OK, no, he didn't say that, but wouldn't it have been cool if he had?)
I finally got in to see Colleen at about 11:00 that evening. Because of the epidural she had no pain from the incision, but the chest muscles below her shoulders were very sore because her arms had been strapped down for 8+ hours straight out to the sides. She slept fitfully that night and I sat and watch her to make sure she remembered to breath, she did very well in the remembering to breath department by the way.
Over the past few days she has very slowly went from sips of water, to drinking all the water she wanted, to eating "full meals" of juice, milk, liquified veggy soup and chocolate ice cream.
Today, Wednesday, her epidural came out, which means, shower, glorious shower. Also, her digestive system is up and running again.
She appreciates all of the good wishes and prayers from everyone and hopefully will be the next person to give an update!
Her "Favorite Sissie" Lori (OK, maybe favorite this week, Kathy after all has given her many wonderful nieces and nephews, who she adores.)