We had another update from the OR. Susan is doing well. It is taking a little longer than expected to get to the pancreas because of scar tissue. This was something we expected and Dr. Beilman was aware of. Dr. Beilman is an excellent Doctor and has dealt with this before and knows exactly how to handle this. If anyone is wondering why there is scar tissue, this is from her many previous surgeries and in this case from her Whipple procedure done in 2012. I want to add, Sue spoke to the doctor who did the Whipple about removing the pancreas to get rid of her chronic pain. That doctor would not do a pancreatectomy, this (the scar tissue) is probably one reason why he was not comfortable doing it. With the skills and experience, Dr. Beilman has, I can’t think of a better person and I know Susan would be saying the same thing, we can’t think of anyone else we would want to do this surgery.
