Green Pee and More Surgery

On October 26, five days after surgery, Gina got a call telling her that Dr. Mabry had not cut enough tissue away during her surgery.  They didn't go into the details of why this happened, just that it did.  They wanted to go in again and take another millimeter of tissue to get a clean margin around the area where her tumor had been.  While this was certainly a drag, it was just a bump in the road...Gina's status as cancer free was not in danger.

Her surgery was scheduled for 8 a.m. on halloween, and it went off without a hitch.  This time, there was no dye and no guide wires...just straight into surgery.  By 9:45, she was on her way back home, hopefully never to return!!

Although I wasn't able to make it to this surgery, Steven took a picture for me in pre-op:

Gina told me that post op pain has been minimal, which is great.  I am so excited that Gina will be feeling good in a couple of weeks and will be joining us when we head off to walk 60 miles in the fight against breast cancer!!  It's going to be even sweeter knowing that she is OK.

Anyway, that's the latest.  I'll be posting about our prep for the walk soon, so stay tuned!

PS Here is a picture of Gina's pee after the first surgery...the blue dye mixed with her yellow pee makes blue!  She described it as the color of Scope ;)