The pictures near the beginning of this post are pretty safe to view. They are from the CT scans before and after chemo.
Before Chemo
Looking from the side
After Chemo
Looking from the side
Before Chemo
Looking from the front
After Chemo
Looking from the front
Also After Chemo
Looking down into his abdomen
WARNING!
Surgery Pictures are below
Caden's Tumor
This is a picture of the underneath side of the liver in order to show the tumor better. In the next picture they will turn it over and place it back into his body for the purpose of showing where it was.
Caden's tumor put back into his body
They had already removed the lower clamp that was pulling down on the opening when they took this picture. The tumor was placed back into position after it was removed in order to take this picture. It is actually halfway back in his abdomen and halfway laying on the outside of his stomach. The right side of the picture is his left lobe of the liver, which stayed in place. It actually grew larger than a normal left lobe during the last four months in order to compensate for the tumor and lack of blood flow in his right lobe. The surgeon's hand is touching the healthy left lobe that remains. The right lobe/tumor is on the left side of this picture. It will take as little as two weeks to grow back to the size of a normal healthy liver. The body seems to know how big the liver needs to be for normal liver function.
Caden's battle wound
These were taken with my phone. Once we get the camera downloaded, we might have better pictures of the incision.
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