Post Surgery....be prepared, its GROSS!

Jared just before surgery....calm as a cucumber, his blood pressure was super low!
Yikes...after surgery with staples in his head!
Still very groggy...he kept asking the same questions over and over...

Kylie and Steve came to see Jared, they are soo cute - love them!

Well today was the big day! We got down to the U of U hospital around 10:00 and got all checked in. Jared was scheduled for surgery sometime between 11 and 12, but of course there were delays, so by the time they finally wheeled him off it was like 1:45. I was dying! I had butterflies in my stomach but I also had been fasting since the night before, so I was starving. But I didnt want to eat until he left for surgery. It was tough to see him go, praying that he would come out ok...it was a little emotional. The last thing he said was, "make sure my little girls know that their daddy loves them"! Wow that was hard!

My cute sister Kelly came up to stay with me so I didnt have to be alone, I was goo glad, it made the time go by soo much faster, and it kept my mind off of Jared. We also got visits from my cute friend Rochelle Barker, who is a drug rep for Pfizer (she distrubutes Lipitor and Viagra) so she was up visiting some doctors. And also we saw John Speth another neighbor and friend who works for the U of U hospital. I also got lots of phone calls and texing...Its great to have good friends!

Dr. Jensen came to see me around 5:45 to discuss the surgery. He said it went great. They had to do the more invasive procedure, which meant they took out about a 2 inch chunk of Jareds skull. They used the MRI and also the PET & CT scans so they could make sure they were in the most aggressive area.

He first biopsied a peice about a big as the tip of his pinky finger and sent it up to pathology. The pathologist called back and said, this looks like brain tissue, not tumor tissue, so he sent up a few more (total biopsy about the size of the end of his thumb from the knuckle up). They will each have extensive testing done to them. Hopefully the testing is done by wednesday, because the Huntsman tumor board meets every wednesday afternoon, and they will go over the pathology report and discuss whats really going on inside Jareds brain!

He said its only happened a couple of time before, but its like all the preliminary testing is showing a tumor, but when they open him up, they can only find brain tissue. It just dosent add up. But hopefully the tests will show more. Its obviously a good thing, but its still a mystery as to what we are seeing on the MRIs. But after they meet on wednesday, hopefully they will know the best way to treat the tumor.