Well, they are not wasting any time getting me on the cutting board! I am scheduled first thing Thursday morning! I know, shocker, huh? We had no idea it would be so soon, less than a week away. He had a cancellation and I got first dibbs on the opening, so we are in a little bit of a panic as far as making arrangements to be in the hospital for 7-9 days. But we are all very excited, scared and anxious all at the same time! The surgeon is going to do a little laparascopic exploration to take a look at the left lobe of my liver and make sure there are no tumors that the CAT scan did not pick up. He said there is less than a 5% chance there might be something there, but he wanted to rule it out before he did the big incision b/c then I would be recuperating from a wasted procedure. The procedure I am having done is an "extended right lobectomy", he is removing the entire right lobe of my liver. The left lobe of my liver appears to be tumor free and is already regenerating itself as a result of the dead tissue in my right lobe, so I already have a head start. And lucky for me, this cancer picked the one organ in the body that regenerates itself, so in no time, I will have a full liver again! Thanks for all of the support, it is going to be crazy for the next few days and I will make sure to find someone versed in blogging to fill my shoes while I am on blog vacation, so we can keep everyone up to date. If you are in Houston and want to stop in and visit, we will post the specifics later. The surgery takes 4-6 hours, so I don't imagine we will be up for visitors until Friday or the weekend.