So they started with a nice laproscopic procedure but after they got in decided they needed to go in through an incision in my abdomen.  For those that don’t know,  laproscropic is just a few tiny little holes in the abdomen, but with an incision, it ends up being about 4 inches or so  straight up and down, at the belly button.  Anyway, they removed a mass about the size of a tennis ball, and put me all back together again.  I was on a clear liquid diet (that is nothing to eat that you cannot see through, for 6-7 days.  I was also on a patient dosing morphine pump a big part of the time, so I was also in “La La land”, and not necessarily in a good way.  I think the morphine made me see and hear very weird things.  As soon as I closed my eyes all kinds of colors and graphic objects would start swirling around like rivers.  I was scared to close my eyes, but of course, the morphine made me very sleepy.  Glad that part is over.  All in all, I was hospitalized from monday to tuesday (8 days).  Dr. Morris sent off my mass to get evaluated, but told me at the time, that it just looked like a lump of lymphnodes all clumped together and he couldn’t say for sure, but that he didn’t think it was cancer.  I remember thinking at that time,  that it would be very strange for a bunch of lymphnodes to gather up for no reason and start causing trouble, but whom am I…next apointment friday Oct 2, with Dr. Morris for post op and hopefully results…