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Dan has been in the hospital six days, but it feels like six weeks to his family.
The surgery on Jan 2 took six hours. The vascular surgeon came out of the surgery optimistic. He got a rather good portion of the clot from the most occluded areas in his abdomen and groin, and samples were sent to the labs to determine if there was cancer cells present.
The doctor did not mess with the renal vein and the clot present there. This means Dan's kidney didn't take a hit, and Dan will not need dialysis while in the hospital.
The IVC is nearly completely closed due to scar tissue from the surgery last year and is most likely the main culprit behind the clot.
Edit: the lab for the clot in the iliac vein was positive for metastatic clear cell Renal Cell Carcinoma.
We have a lot of questions regarding the remaining kidney and its bad vein, regarding the IVC and its periphery veins and future issues it may cause, and regarding Dan's future health. Not a whole lot of answers given to us yet.
But for now, Dan is growing stronger each day, woke up looking and feeling much better than the first go around, and is on a good track to being home soon. His parents have visited every day, and Maggie when she feels like it and is up to smell.
Dan has been in the hospital six days, but it feels like six weeks to his family.
The surgery on Jan 2 took six hours. The vascular surgeon came out of the surgery optimistic. He got a rather good portion of the clot from the most occluded areas in his abdomen and groin, and samples were sent to the labs to determine if there was cancer cells present.
The doctor did not mess with the renal vein and the clot present there. This means Dan's kidney didn't take a hit, and Dan will not need dialysis while in the hospital.
The IVC is nearly completely closed due to scar tissue from the surgery last year and is most likely the main culprit behind the clot.
Edit: the lab for the clot in the iliac vein was positive for metastatic clear cell Renal Cell Carcinoma.
We have a lot of questions regarding the remaining kidney and its bad vein, regarding the IVC and its periphery veins and future issues it may cause, and regarding Dan's future health. Not a whole lot of answers given to us yet.
But for now, Dan is growing stronger each day, woke up looking and feeling much better than the first go around, and is on a good track to being home soon. His parents have visited every day, and Maggie when she feels like it and is up to smell.
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