Fingers crossed

• Outpatient surgery at Big Barnes to replace the stent in my left ureter (with a shorter one) with Dr. D not Dr. D

Everything seemed to go well with my stent replacement surgery today.

Dr. D came by to talk to us beforehand and she marked the left side (no need for confusion in the operating room) of my abdomen (near my belly button, this picture is PG people.) She even gave the marker to Hector as a souvenir. A surgical skin marker. Interesting. That's a YES, along with her initials. Although for a stent replacement, it should be clear which side has the stent? Anyway...

My actual procedure ended up being performed by one of her partners after Dr. D got called away on an emergency case. When she came by to talk to us in recovery, Dr. D said that she had "really wanted to do (my) surgery." Not to worry, I'll be back in 3 months for another replacement. She'll be looking at my scans and during the next surgery they will even perform some kind of additional test to see if the stent is still required. It would be great if my current chemo is shrinking that tumor and the stent could just be removed... not replaced. I'll be having scans in the next couple of weeks so we'll get our first look at what the chemo has been able to do...

There were no cartwheels today but on our way home from the hospital we did make one pit stop.