Paul's Surgery Demo 🤯

Trying to detach my feelings from the fact that this surgery is being performed on my husband — this is pretty effing cool…

The surgeon will make five (5) 1-inch incisions for the robotic ‘arms’ to enter, and one larger incision (similar to a C-section incision) to remove the organs. It really is pretty sick what they can do!

See this really informative (and quick) 3-min video explaining and demonstrating how the surgery will be done. (The vid is really not bad at all — no blood or open organs shown or anything like that 😉, but if you’re extra sensitive to this kinda stuff… maybe give it a skip.) It's quite miraculous to see though.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWVgA19WRTo

As Paul mentioned in his last post, hey’ll be removing:

• 15% of small intestine

• full gallbladder

• full appendix

• hopefully also the tumor in his mesentery and some necrotic lymph nodes, if possible

• possibly any tumors that may have been undetectable by the scans

'Fun' fact re: the appendix. The surgeon told us that there has been a significant link found between the appendix and Parkinson’s disease. By removing the appendix, it reduces the risk for Parkinson’s. Interesting stuff.

Dayna 💛😓

Screenshots from video titled "What is a Robotic Colectomy" by Providence Swedish - www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWVgA19WRTo

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