Surgery went well

Dr. Pikul just came down and gave us a briefing on the surgery. He felt that in general it went very well - he was able to remove a large part of the tumor and there were no complications during the procedure. He was unable to get everything - there was a part of the tumor which we believed was sitting on the motor strip - that indeed was the case - so that stayed behind.

All of the "study" samples (blood and tissue) were successfully gathered, packed on dry ice and transferred to a waiting courier for transport to UCLA. The team also performed a "quick" biopsy in the operating theater and confirmed (as expected) that this is the same sort of tumor that emerged two years ago.

Keith woke up after surgery and was able to say his name and wiggle all the important bits. They will be transporting him to the ICU over the next hour - we are hoping to get up to see him shortly.