Hi all friends and family and assorted loved ones. Karen is in the hospital tonight, so she asked me to post everyone about her status.
She is in good spirits and quite chipper after a rough day of surgery.
She has been pretty clinical and detailed, so in that vein, I'll do my best: After pre-op poking her with wires and injecting her with various unnatural substances starting at 7:45 a.m., she went into surgery at 12:00 noon, and was out a little before 3:00. They took out the tumor, and will be studying it for the next few days to gain confidence that they got all of it. They also took out her "sentinel lymph node" and tested it for cancer. It tested positive, so they had to go in and take out all her lymph nodes on that side. They will be testing them over the next several days to determine if they are cancerous. The prognosis will be influenced by the number of lymph nodes affected. Frankly, the oncologist has made it pretty clear that an aggressive treatment of chemotherapy is in Karen's future.
She's extremely brave and in good spirits. I have extended all of our love to her, and I know she appreciates the extraordinary kindness that has been shown, including notes, calls, flowers, dinners, cleaning, and checking in on the girls. Really amazing, and I know she feels very much loved. As she should.
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