Has anyone here dealt with a pancreas Nuero Endocrine Tumor(NET)?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

5. Boyfriend is home feeling much better.

The doctor feels he is "cured" even though they don't like to use that word and he will need follow up for the next five years. Apparently, theses tumors aren't considered malignent or benign - they are classified by how they are acting. His is far down on the benign side - not spread to the liver or lymph nodes. So it appears we dodged a bullet.

It was major surgery. They took his spleen, gallbladder, lymph nodes and the tail of his pancreas. He would have been out in 4 days but his bowels didn't cooperate. He ended up having the Nasal Gastric (NG) tube stuck back down his nose on day 5 (while he was awake). The spleen comes out because it shares blood vessels and lymph nodes and the gallbladder goes because it will give you problems after this type of surgery.

Out of the hospital on day seven - probably a day early because we had to attend his biological father's funeral. His father passed away while the boyfriend was in the hospital. Jeeze.

The family has been through a lot this year. His stepfather was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic with liver mets the day after we scheduled the surgery. The father looked like he had a couple years in him but he went downhill the day of the surgery - COPD and emphysema. the stepfather probably has weeks.

Off to clean father's house.