Surgery update

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Yesterday Devin had surgery with her oncologist Dr. Weinstein and a plastic surgeon to rebuild her mouth where the tumor was. Dr. Weinstein is an amazing surgeon and a head of neck and throat care treatment at UPenn, aka best of the best. Surgery was set to begin at 10:45 but we ended up hanging out in or-op for a while and she finally went into surgery at 1pm.
The surgery went in three steps with three separate surgeons.
First a feeding tube was placed, went perfectly.
Second Dr. Weistein and his team used the robotics to remove the tumor. After 8 long hours and Siobhan and Owen giving the nurse giving us news every dirty look in the book, Dr. Weinstein came to tell us that his part of the surgery had gone VERY well! He was able to remove the entire tumor, with great margins and repeatedly told us he was "very pleased." He did mention that radiation, chemo, and therapy but her odds are looking pretty good :)
We waited an additional hour or so and Dr. Canaday came to speak with us. He is the plastic surgeon, again one of the best for reconstructing the mouth and throat. He to was very pleased with how everything went. He reconstructed her tongue and tonsil,  and repaired her throat. Dr. Weinstein saved most of the muscles required for swollowing so that is great news.

After a few hours in recovery Devin finally got to her room about 1:30 AM. We visited for a bit and went to get some rest.

Today was a good day. She is struggling a bit with her trach but has been sitting up all day and her tongue is moving!

Please continue to keep us all in your prayers.