Mary's OB doctor performing the surgery is Dr. Misti Bartell; she has performed about 50 or so of this type of surgery. It will be a two-hour surgery or less.
Mary has a 17 cm tumor in her lower section (lower bladder area), which is a small melon size. Dr. Bartell will remove the right ovary and tube & will try to save the left side. Mary is doing great and staying calm. Her twin sister, Misty, had a similar surgery performed about two years ago. See our Oregon post for a picture of Mary and Misty.
Mary will be in the hospital for two or three days. She will be relaxing at home for two or three weeks, then taking it easy and not lifting for an additional three to five weeks thereafter. Mary, Misty, and I will be at the hospital on Thursday. Mary's mom, Charlene, will be there on Friday & taking care of Mary for about two weeks recovering at home. The UPS Store has great, valuable employees that will take care operations during this time of Mary's recovery. I will be assisting at the store when necessary.
Here are Mary's CAT scans (sorry I do not know how to covert from novapacs viewer to jpeg, so I performed printscreens to bmp):
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