@kathyfujii
I apologize for not remembering how long the surgery was. It was in Feb of 2017 at Hopkins and I was there for 4 or 5 days? after. They also removed the spleen but did not do anything to anything else as my cancer was very small and there were no mets as it had been discovered serendipitously. I did get three meningitis shots-two in one arm and one in the other as I didn't have a spleen. When I got home, they were what hurt as I had to sleep on my back. I had to go back to Hopkins to have the drains from the laparoscopic surgery removed and was astonished as a non-medical person at how much tubing was there. My mets to the liver were discovered with the annual CT in late November and then verified with an MRI and PET. I am on Lanrotide and having problems with high blood pressure although the mets appear to be responding to the Lanreotide. We are working on the high BP.