I just hung up with Mark, Dr. Robinson's assistant. First of all, she is out of surgery and is starting to wake up now. The surgery went well and Mark said that the tumor was far larger than what could be seen from the outside. He said that it was a good thing that we chose the option of resectioning the ear canal because there is no way that the whole tumor could have been removed otherwise. Apparently it was quite large, but Dr. R. feels he got it all. He is going to send the tumor off to be tested so we can know exactly what it is, and while he was in there, he saw some infection way down in the canal that concerned him, so he took a swab and is sending it off to identify it by culture, so he can know how to treat that. Obviously, I'm trying to remember everything he said and am probably doing a lousy job of it. She did well enough under the anesthesia that he did a dental cleaning on her too! She will have "pearly whites".

Mark says she looks like a war veteran because they have her head bandaged. He said that should elicit lots of sympathy. You had better believe it will!!!

I can pick her up after 5 pm today. He just wants to make sure she has had time to wake up sufficiently. I am so relieved that this is overwith and our girl made it through!! I, of course, am still concerned about the results of the biopsy, but we will deal with that as it comes. Our girl is coming home!!!!