This is the room and equipment that Brian had his April 2019 Kidney surgery in. He was wheeled in on a card with a hospital gown and paper hat on. Dr. John P[aul]. Jones did the surgical procedure. Dr. Chenowith was the anesthesiologist. There was one circulator RN and another who had scrubbed in the case and would help Dr Jones with the procedure itself.
When Brian had been under anesthesia and sleeping on the table, The MDs said that they could see the bump under his skin where the tumor was growing. Brian already had his CT scans so Dr. Jones knew exactly where they needed to "cut".
What they really did not realize was exactly how the tumor was. Brian has an incision just under 10 inches long on his lower right abdomen. At one point Dr. Jones asked for the obstetrical forceps because neither alone, nor with Dr. Chenowith's help could he get the tumor out. The finally got it out without the forceps but with a lot of pulling.
This picture is of the station where the operator of the "daVinci XL [robot]", Dr. Jones, sits and makes 5 to 6 small abdominal incisions to detach the tumor from it's anchors in the abdomen, as well as detaching the kidney that was within/encapsulated the tumor. He also lost the Adrenal gland that sits on top of the kidney.
After the tumor and kidney was free of its attachments, the incision was made to remove the kidney from Brian's abdomen. As described above, it took some work to get the tumor out. I asked Dr. Jones what it looked like. He said it was yellow - and big. He also said that this was the average sized tumor that was found before CT scans.
Brian spent 2 miserable nights in a private room, not far from the nurses station. What we didn't realize was that his Myasthenia Gravis was making it had for him to breath. Once he was diagnosed with the MG in June of 2019, his discomfort made a lot of sense.
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