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Hello again and thank you for the welcome!

Lainy, my surgeon did tell me that I will have an epidural so I guess that is good news for me! He said that they will start me with that and then do their best to stay ahead of the pain. He was very forthcoming about the amount of pain but I don’t know if it will be from the liver resection or the common bile duct reconstuction – guess it might be from both.

Marion, from what I have been told the low risk factor of 2% for becoming Cholangiocarcinoma is after complete excision of choledochal cysts. The risk is much higher if the cysts remain and the risk increases with age which is why I decided to have the complete resection now. I am healthy so am expecting to hear benign!! I will hopefully remember what you said about the pillow – I didn’t even think about if I have to cough.

Thank you all again for the good wishes and prayers!