The Eve of Operation GET TO THE TUMAH. Today, Dan met with a naturopath to talk healing during recovery, and then later with the urologist specialist who's keying the surgery. Surgery happens tomorrow, June 13, at 1pm, at Royal Columbian Hospital. Surgery will be several hours, at the minimum. He might be left under general anesthesia for a few days, so we'll let everyone know when he's awake and moved out of ICU and into a recovery room that accepts balloons and cards that explode glitter. (Kidding. Don't send glitter.) (Sparkles are cool, tho.) Unfortunately, the surgeons have decided that the best course of action is to open up Dan vertically, rather than the hoped for belly button to armpit diagonal direction. This gives the surgeons greater access to Dan's IVC, where the majority of the tumor resides according to the scans, but it also means they're breaking Dan's sternum, which we were hoping didn't have to happen. There is still a lot ...