The Day After

Goodness,

Thank you all for the thoughts, well wishes and prayers. Got home Friday afternoon (Feb 6th) and was pretty looped from the narcotics and other pain meds they gave me. But a dull ache most of the day. Finally was able to eat some food later that evening (and kept it down the second try! LOL)

Ended up sleeping in the recliner, and awoke this morning feeling very sore, but semi-lucid, so thought I'd write. They went in through my abdomen, like a hernia surgery on the left side and took out it out from the inside along with most of the spermatic cord. The Dr. was pleased with the surgery and it went well. He also liked that the spermatic cord looked and appeared normal. The other encouraging factor at this point was just before surgery he told us that they had gotten the results of the blood work from Thursday night backed. Based on the levels of the tumor markers, it appears that my cancer is a 'seminoma'. We are waiting on the pathological examination of the removed parts at this point. More information can be found here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testicular_cancer)

So I have to treat this as if I had a hernia operation at this point. No heavy lifting for a couple weeks, and stuff like that. Have the CT scans scheduled for Wednesday afternoon now, and those combined with the pathological report, should have some more direction towards the end of next week. Still just taking it one day at a time.