Surgery at 7 am, and I am now home. It went pretty good. The surgeon got the large growing tumor in the middle of my liver and was able to insert the mini beads and radiation. He feels confident that will improve the symptoms, but not change the mortality much. The second large tumor which they could not radiate because my liver has reached its limit, will be reviewed for chemo embolization which is effective the first or second time, but does not last as long as the radiation. I will be down for about three days, and I got lectured about my activities after the last surgery, and I will not lift anything for three days. We will travel back to Pensacola on Wed. and my wife will have to do most of the driving. The next couple days will be uncomfortable because the radiation usually spills beyond the tumor and the first time I had pain in my stomach and lungs. These folks are rated number 1 in the world on radio embolization and this was my fifth surgery in five years, and my cousin's husband who died of the same endocrine cancer was only able to get two surgeries at Moffitt in Tampa which is a leading hospital in endocrine cancer, but not as advanced as Northwestern in radio embolization. My cousin has been sad telling me what is coming, and her husband just became exhausted after the surgery I had today, and after his first one he seriously told his wife he was done because of the bad reaction he had. The folks at Northwestern just are light years ahead of others in their training and techniques and although I will be tired for two weeks, that does not stop me with my projects......I will be chainsawing on Friday, and when I tire, I simply sit down in a plastic chair......wait and get back on the horse. I have finally ran out of rope.......no more radiation on the liver.....oh well......I got five more years of life which ten years ago was not possible. I am a lucky man, and I have found this cancer has been a blessing in my life. It has been slow, and it has instilled wisdom........yea, tonight will not be fun, but heck....I will be chainsawing by the weekend.