Had a pre-operation meeting down in San Francisco with Dr Alkoraishi, who is to be my surgeon next Thursday. Very encouraging - he gave me a physical exam and said that the tumour had shrunk from when he looked at it before, so all the radiation and chemotherapy have had the desired effect. He said I should expect to be in hospital for 5 days, although he may release me after 4 if I'm lucky, and to plan to be off work entirely for two weeks, largely because of the pain meds, which is more or less what I was expecting.
It was a relief to get this done with - I've been waiting for something to happen for a few weeks now and just fretting about the operation is doing me no good at all, so it was nice to have some encouragement.
So, 10 more days to go - I'll try to think of other things for at least some of that time, but I'm not sure how successful I will be!
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