User blog comment:Theflockrulez/Surgery/@comment-3221594-20110730162544

Best wishes on a speedy and successful recovery. Don't worry too much about tumor removal surgery. The processes now are much less invasive than in the past and recovery times are usually pretty darn fast as well.

One tip though about hospital stays (both from being in them and from having family who work in them), ALWAYS make sure the nurses and doctors wash their hands and put on fresh gloves before examining you. It is well within a patient's rights to request them to do so and it is suppossed to be part of hospital rules anyways. You would be amazed at the percentage of patients who pick up an extra illness or infection IN the hospital because staff there got lazy.