yippeee - surgery is over! Everything went well. Neck dissection on both sides, piece of the jugular vein removed left side. Pathology report won't be back until Monday or so but they did the extra blast of radiation so even if there was something there it's been treated. We're still at the hospital - likely until Friday. Mike's got some swelling on the left side, some problems swallowing solids due to swelling and three drains in. He's sitting up, getting ready to get out of bed and all in all is doing well All the docs are really happy with themselves (and they should be). This morning we had a visit from the pet ministry - cute little fella.