All, my mother is still in surgery 14 hrs later and is expected to finish up within the next hour or 2. Has anyone here been under that long? The cancer surgery lasted 5 1/2 hrs, and the plastic surgery started right after that and is still going on. They removed a tumor, under the base of her tongue that was .5 inch in diameter, and as my father described it, it had the tentacles. I don't know that much more right now.