In this episode, Mark returns from surgery and receives his first report on the radical robotic prostatectomy surgery and six weeks later, he receives a thorough pathology report. He asks, "Do you feel you got it all?"

Julie:



I waited in the waiting area for about another couple of hours and a got a call from the recovery room and they said that he was waking up and that I could come in and see him.



Mark:



When I woke up I was in the recovery room and heard Julie's voice and it's a welcome sound. Later on in the morning Dr. Tewari came in.



VO Dr. Tewari:



Hello there. Good morning.



VO Mark:



Good morning.



VO Dr. Tewari:



How've you been?



VO Mark:



Feeling ok. You feel like you got it all?



VO Dr. Tewari:



I did a couple of further sections and there were a couple areas that were bumpy on one side and 95% of the patients don't need any radiation or anything. So there's a 95% chance that you will not.



Mark:



And of course he wanted to see me walk and get up. He walked down with me down the hall and around the corner and so on. So he got a good feel for how I was doing--the color, the pain.



VO Dr. Tewari:



Are you feeling ok?



VO Mark:



Yeah. I am.



Mark:



After Dr. Tewari left, another one of his residents came in and said, "You can go home at any time."



Text:



With robotics prostatectomy, blood loss is minimized and the recovery period is shortened.



Mark:



When I returned roughly six days--well it was six days after the surgery, the pathology report had come back.



Julie:



You're just silently sending little prayers heavenward, and just hoping and hoping and then she read the report to us and its just like, "Oh, thank you!" You're just--it's the most wonderful feeling in the world, I think: that anxiety lifted from you.



Mark:



The margins were clean. The lymphnodes--there were twelve lymphnodes--those were all clean. So there was no evidence of cancer in any of the surrounding tissues or any migration so that was a very nice holiday present. Dr. Tewari came over and gave Julie a hug, gave me a hug, and we said, "Wonderful pathology report." And he said, "Couldn't have been better, couldn't have been better."