He wants a shoe horn, the kind with teeth.
Jess and I met with the surgeon from OHSU online. Considering my last scans, they're very enthusiastic about finally getting to the resection of my tumorous portion of my liver. Things we learned: When they did the Y-90 treatment they didn't just kill portions of my liver, it killed a whole "big-ass" section of my liver. The right side. "Whuuuuuuuutttt?" Yup. A lot of the liver got killed. But, because livers regenerate, more new liver grew. That's pretty darned cool. Thanks, body. They're going to cut out all of necrotic tissue and a little more "marginal" material. The timeframe for this is in six weeks. The doctor thought it was funny when I described the procedure as opening me up and scraping me out with a stainless steel shoehorn. I don't know how long recovery will be. It'll be done up at OHSU. Light googling says up to 5-6 weeks. They want me to do CT scans ASAP so that they can judge liver volume and check out that there...