Two Down, One To Go!

Just spoke with the surgeon.  Maggie is out of surgery and doing very well.  They did have to cut open her sternum, so she will have some awesome pain meds, but the operation went about as well as it could go. 

They were able to remove all of the mass and a nice margin of healthy tissue around it.  That's the best possible outcome.

We will have to wait 5-7 days for the histopathology report to determine if it is cancer and to know if the margin was big enough, but for now we have had the best possible result.  It's a huge relief.

Unsurprisingly, Maggie has won the hearts of the staff at the vet hospital, as we found out last night from the nurses.  I fully expect to go in tomorrow and find Maggie in her bed, surrounded by nurses laughing at her jokes as she sips the bottle of booze they smuggled in for her.