Hubby was out of town so the kids and I had to do it. Tim had his HIPEC surgery on May 7th which was 1 week from today. The surgery took a total of 9.5 hours. He had a mass on a seminal vesicle near the bladder and rectal wall. They had to leave some of that mass behind or else they would have had to remove some or all of his bladder. They removed a few inches of colon and reconnected it at the rectal wall. No ostomy was needed. They found spread to the lower left and top of peritoneum. They removed his spleen, part of his pancreas, and his omentum.
They next day after surgery, he was having difficulty with his NG tube coming up Into his mouth. The ICU nurse tried to readjust it but it came out. They tried for several days getting it back in with and without sedatives but it was too painful for my husband. Finally, 3 days after surgery, he was so distended that they had to intubate him to place him on a ventilator and put the NG back in. His lung function was decreasing and is abdomen was huge. He remained on the vent for a day and a half. He was given oxygen through a face mask throughout Sunday until that night when they put him on a BiPAP machine. So far it is working and they don't feel he needs to be back on a vent just yet. Chest X-rays show he has respiratory edema and probable pneumonia. He had klebsiella already and now has been diagnosed with MRSA. This is day 7 in the ICU with no immediate plans of getting moved. The lung issues are an unfortunate blow after such a hard surgery. I had so much guilt about him having this surgery and was so afraid of losing him. The doc said that systemic chemo alone to what he had inside would have given him less than a 25% chance of surviving. Day by day be plug along and pray that he gets past this hurdle.
Tracy
