Joe had to go to the dentist today. His temporary crown had broken off last night leaving a big hole in his tooth.
I went in to see Dr. K and got an appointment for the surgery at the University of Utah. He checked my biliruben level and it was up again. We're all still gathering information. He described that the surgery would probably be the Whipple Procedure, a pretty radical surgery that takes out parts of half the stuff in there and reconnects it all in a new configuration. The recovery time the literature gave was 3 weeks in the hospital and 2 more in a nursing home, mainly for maintenance of all the tubes you would have in you. They were going to do the surgery in a few weeks, but I was worried about it getting so close to winter, especially if I needed checkups down in Salt Lake afterwards and driving down there in a storm. So Dr. K was working on getting the surgery set sooner. First I have to go for a consultation with Dr. Mulvihill at the Huntsman Cancer Hospital and Institute, then later go back again for the surgery. Don't know the dates yet.
I checked through my email at Rendezvous Pointe and deleted all the unnecessary stuff. The cherry frozen yogurt sounded real good for lunch. I had the dogs with me and we took a couple of walks. Then got a few groceries and went home.
