My husband was diagnosed with lesion in tail of pancreas and began 6 rounds of chemo to shrink tumor. It did shrink. Then at the end of October, he had about half of pancreas robotically removed, along with spleen and 29 lymph nodes around the pancreas. After a short recuperation from surgery, he had 6 more treatments. He was just scanned last week and they found no evidence of cancer. He will be scanned every 3 months for a year. He is doing well, lost no weight, did not lose his hair. He did develop neuropathy in fingers, feet and legs. We opted to do the 6 chemo treatments before surgery and then the 2nd 6 treatments after surgery, as a 2nd doctor told us that was the prevailing opinion for treatment. All the best to you on Tuesday.

I had pancreadectomy in December. Recovery is fairly easy with lap surgery. I remember that it did still hurt to laugh about a month out!
I drank Expedite once/day prior to surgery and also afterwards. In the hospital they gave me something similar called Juvederm. Recommended by Dr and Dietician to promote healing. I think it works! I am now a month out from liver resection and also feel fully healed. Good luck tomorrow!!