Hi All. Petra had her operation. The doctors survived Petra and Petra
survived the doctors. Not sure how the nurses are holding up though.

The doctor that did the operation said he removed a tumor the size of
an apple, but didn't say what kind of apple. From the opening he
made in her tummy I got the impression that it was a somewhat large
apple. I was able to see her about 10 minutes after they brought her
into the recovery room. She was still pretty groggy, but was in good
spirits. The nurses chased me out and told me they were going to clean
her up and then take her to her room. I would be able to see her there
in about 10 minutes.

When I saw her in her room they were hooking her up to various tubes
and what have you. I saw they had her hooked to a morphine pump. I
learned from the nurse that Petra could administer 125mg of morphine
every 10 minutes. That isn't enough to put her out, but is just
enough to make the pain bearable. On a scale of 1 to 10 Petra was an
8, which is quite painful. I stayed with for about an hour, but she
would drift in and out of sleep so I left her alone so she could get
some rest and quite.

I saw her again a couple of hours later and she told me not to make her
laugh then she started laughing. That brought a moan from her. I told
her to stop laughing. She was finely able to stop.

She can't have food to eat or water to drink. She can suck on a
sponge with water to keep her mouth wet, but that is the extent of any
liquid that she can have.

She has no idea as to how long she is going to be there, but at the
moment she isn't to keen on wanting to come home. Can't say that I
blame her any. She said she wanted to loose some weight, but this
isn't exactly the way she wanted to do it. All in all she is doing
okay. Take Care...Don