Surgery was pretty extensive, but went well. All told he was under the knife for about 7 hours. They removed parts of his liver, his gallbladder, three lymph nodes and about a foot of rectum/colon/intestine. He has a permanant colostomy.

He is recovering well, but is still very heavily medicated. The doctors have assured us that they got all the cancer for now, but that it will return in the future, which is the VERY bad news. But the organ tissue that they left looks very healthy, and some of it will regenerate.

He is in ICU for now but should be in a regular room in the next few days.