Kodi Update

I am cheating and just copying what Tracy J put up on Kodi's site today! :)

By the numbers:

9 hours of surgery

2 bone marrow samples

3 units of blood

2 units of platelets

2 kidneys intact

1 pancreas intact

99% tumor removed

100% relieved!

Kodi is out of surgery and being moved to ICU. We haven’t seen her yet, but Dr. Miller came out to let us know let everything went well. He said it was a long, difficult procedure, but that Kodi did extremely well. He was able to save the kidney and did not have to remove any of the pancreas.

There are still some small nodules remaining in/on the kidney, but they appear to be calcified and “dead.” The only way to remove them would have been to remove the whole kidney. The remaining courses of chemotherapy should be able to kill out any microscopic active cancer cells. (Spine and rib area were left alone today – treatment should take care of these as well.)

Kodi has an incision that spans across the entire abdomen, IV’s in both hands, and another arterial catheter in one wrist. Dr. Miller tells us that she will be very “puffy” from the transfusions/fluids, and she will have the NG tube for about 5 days. I’m assuming the epidural is in place, but we did not confirm at the time.

Please continue to pray for Kodi’s recovery. We still have a long way to go!

Thank you guys so much for your prayers for them today. It's such a relief for me to have it over, I can't even begin to imagine what it was like for them. I'm hoping to get to run over and see them for a little bit when I go to Stephenville in a couple of weeks. Hopefully I can get down there before Kodi has her transplant b/c I won't get to visit her for sure for awhile after that. Glad that today is over and I can go to bed tonight knowing that she is resting tonight.

--Jenn