It is a good day when a friend goes in for surgery with less than the best likely prognosis, but six hours into it the surgeon can report "We got all of it. The tumor is out." She was happy and positive going into it. When she wakes up she'll be miserable but happy and positive about the future. Thank you modern medicine. In most of the world you have a problem and you die. In America they disassemble you, put you back together and after a little rehab you are as good as new.