Liver surgery is tougher coming back from (for me) as they dissected the liver and flipped it over to remove the 1 cm tumor. No other spots were found even though they had 4 additional suspicious spots. The head of Radiology at Stanford came in and biopiosed them as 2 cysts and 2 hemangeomas). Going in I was healthy after the 5 months of chemo and my CEA had fallen from a high of 17 to less than 1.0

Now I am 6 weeks off anything and then 3 proposed cycles of chemo after that. I know at the beginning there were many wonderful people here who understood what I was going through. I feel hopeful. I went a different path than most (chemo first to see the effect on the tumor and then surgery )and I was sweating more tumors showing up.

For liver surgery, I was suprised how low my appetite is, how gummed up I feel (I do get stool softeners) and how painful the cut and drains were. They used glue to sew me up with other sutures under the skin.