Whippled

This is Sarah standing in for the main man.

Today has been a Very Long Day.

I was up at the Spire at 6.45am to spend a bit of time with Chris before he was whipped away for his Whipple.  He went down to theatre just after 8am.

Fast forward to about 3.45pm and I got the call from Mr Hilal to say that he was pleased with how the surgery had gone and that Chris was now in the ICU.

The intervening hours were very difficult. No sang-bloody-froid from me I'm afraid.

Anyway, he is out the other side, and has managed some smiles despite being in a lot of pain and having too many tubes to count coming in and going out.  His blood pressure was looking a bit high but he's had meds to bring that down.  He is also high as a kite on morphine. We have been warned that the risk of complications is quite high so please keep everything crossed for the next few days.

Thank you so much for all the many text messages, voicemails, emails, blog comments, and Facebook comments. If you've contacted Chris today and he hasn't replied it's because he's not in a fit state yet to be using his phone but please know that it means such a lot that you are all rooting for him.

Don't forget to enter your guesses on the Number of Stitches sweepstake.  Instructions are on the last blog post here: http://chrislittsjourney.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/a-stich-in-time.html

Sweepstake donations to the LAP R&D charity can be made here: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserPage.action?userUrl=LAPCancerCharity&pageUrl=2

I will post another update tomorrow.