Hi Tim, good luck with your treatment and surgery. My wife seems to be at the extreme for what her post treatment and surgery life is like but then her surgery was pretty extreme too. Her surgery was modified Appleby not Whipple like most. She also lost her gall bladder, spleen, adrenal gland 23 lymph nodes and 60% of the pancreas. As far as we know almost a year and a half out, the pancreas makes insulin and she not being treated for insufficiency other than Creon for digestion. Her biggest problem is the bile dumping due to no gall bladder. Everyone is going to be different. One thing that the doctors seem to be overly optimistic is how long your recuperation and achieving a new normal will take. They might say 2 months of even 6 months but don't be impatient it could take longer, it did for my wife. Our prayers are with you.