Peggy was exhausted last night after a long day at the hospital. I can speak from experience as to how exhausting it can be just sitting around all day waiting for news and praying that everything will be okay. It is very hard on you physically and mentally.
I am work this morning, but got an update from Jennifer. She said that when they arrived this morning at 9:00, the nurse said that Glen had a restless night with a lot of pain. He had an anxiety attack, which they addressed, but overall was doing well under the circumstances. He is trying to rest in between the moans.
About 10:15 they were told that Glen will be moved to a room later this morning. Peggy and Jennifer talked to the doctor around 11:00 and he decided to keep Glen one more night in the ICU. This is for pain management purposes and to possibly start feeding his J tube (tube that will allow nutrition to go directly to the intestine and skip the esophagus and stomach).
The details of the surgery are as follows: They removed about 60% of his esophagus and about 30% of his stomach. They believe that the removed all the cancer that was in the esophagus. The biggest risk for the next week is potential leakage where they re-attached the esophagus and stomach.
They also removed 2 cancerous lymph nodes to test to determine what type of lymphoma cancer he has and to know what type of chemo to use to battle it once he has recovered from this surgery.
Thank you for your continued prayer support. The entire family appreciates your support.
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