Thanks, Pat. I spoke to his surgeon about two hours ago....he was in surgery for 11 hours. I don't know how the surgeons do it! He said that while they were in there, they found a double hernia, and they fixed that, too.
He got the Indiana pouch that he wanted, and they may have even scraped off a little of that "excess". I asked the surgeon if, while they were in there, they did a little tuck. He said no, but they took out a little of the excess. Yes, my husband's a BIG man.
Anyway, now I'm waiting for him to come down from the recovery room. After I've seen him, I'm going to go back to the hotel and try to get some sleep, charge my cell phone, and my internal batteries.
I'm going to count tubes when I see him. They may not get him up and walking tomorrow, since the surgery went so long. I guess we just wait.
Stephany in Iowa