My Uncle - Update

Just wanted to let you all know that my uncle's surgery.
The doctor said things went as well as could be expected. They did remove his whole stomach, his spleen and surrounding lymph nodes.
The doctor was pretty concerned about a couple of spots on a lymph node by his pancreas but he didn't want to mess with it so he put a sort of clamp there so if the oncologist decides to do radiation he'll have a target to shoot for. It is good news that his pancreas looked ok.
He is in ICU tonight, he'll be there for 4 or 5 days. My aunt and cousins got to go in a see him tonight and they said he looked no different than he did before the surgery, he was talking to them just a little groggy.
Everyone was told of the serious risk involved in this surgery, most of them are after the surgery, such as infection, blood clots, etc.
We were talking today how it is so scary because my grandmother had to have surgery on her stomach back in Dec. 95, she went through her surgery fine, got moved out of ICU and into a regular room, she finally got to eat real food and was doing great.
My uncle and dad were with her one morning and decided to go to the cafeteria to get breakfast while the nurses were changing my grandmother's sheets and helping her bathe off, they heard them call code blue to my grandmother's room. She had a blood clot and just slumped over in the chair she was sitting in and died, that was on New Year's day 1996.
So even though the surgery is over there are still great dangers. Please continue to keep him in your prayers.