I was admitted to Memorial Hermann Memorial City Hospital to have my gallbladder removed laparoscopically on an outpatient basis. I was having this done as a result of almost a year of constant stomach problems and pain in my upper right side. While my surgeon, Dr. Stephen McElmurry, was removing my gallbladder he found several tumors on my liver. He took biopsies of the tumors and they were determined to be malign (cancerous). The cancer cells seemed to be secondary, meaning they did not originate in the liver and it seemed that they had metastasized from another location in my body. Not exactly the news we were expecting, to say the least!