SURGERY DONE

10:56 am
I finally got up and talked to the nurse in the waiting room here and asked if she could check on Roberto's status.  She said that she couldn't while the patient is in surgery...but that he just got out of surgery and they will be taking him to the recovery room.  YAY!  Why couldn't she have lead with that???

11:03 am
Theories:

1)  The tumor was a bit more complicated than anticipated.
2)  They didn't start the surgery right away
3)  The TV with patient statuses is not accurate
4)  Roberto made a deal with the surgeon to get some bionic implants (this is the most likely)

11:09 am
Roberto's official time out of surgery is 11:06 am.  The surgeon should be out soon to tell me the gory details.

11:18 am
Good News:  he's doing well and is awake.  There was no blood loss and they got the tumor out.
Bad News:  the tumor had actually grown past the mediastinum to the left side of his body.  This is partly why the surgery took longer.  Also, because the chemotherapy was so good, there was a lot of scar tissue around the tumor which made it harder to extract.  They took part of the middle and upper lobe (I don't really know what that means).

I should be able to see him soon.  The surgeon thinks that Roberto will be out of the hospital by the weekend.

11:49am
Wow, I didn't realize how much time had passed.  I just saw Roberto and he looks good and totally out of it.  He's still in the recovery room and is going to be moved to the ICU soon.  Adam told me that "removing the lobe" part means they removed part of his lung.  :(

12:05pm
I just want to say that they didn't remove an entire lobe, so it wasn't that much of the lung.