Hello.Yes I've had 2..what would you like to know? 

Hello! Thank you for replying, I'm grateful. I am having to have nearly half liver removed and will be a centre line incision so they can check everything  else. I'm just head muddled atm lol. I'll be in icu after I'm just generally worried about the pain and recovery time. Thank you. 

I had a rooftop incision..it goes across most of my abdomen.The recovery was fairly rough for the first one..you will probably have an epidural for the first few days,that will help with the pain.

Try and get up and moving as quickly as possible as that does help with recovery.

I've never had to spend time in ICU..they normally keep me in the recovery room over night with 1 to 1 nursing. 

I was 35 when I had my first resection..the scar bothered me at first but now I'm fine with it and still wear a bikini etc .

Ok thanks for your reply. I saw that you had a rare tumour? Was it large?. How are you now?. Mine is a rare one, 10 years after one was found on ovary, resulting in hysterectomy,  but I didnt get told it could come back!. Thanks for replying to me. I think if i imagine the worst I'll be ok lol. I presume the worst is after op and recovering  for months and if they can get it all.  Hope you are doing ok. 

Yes the first one was 22cms..my second resection the tumour was a lot smaller..

The first couple of days after surgery are the worst.I only stay in hospital 4-5 days and always recover much quicker at home..

My last resection was done in a liver transplant centre by a transplant surgeon..I was back at work in a couple of months

I'm doing ok now.Still have regular scans and have a few spots in my liver still but I live a normal life..I work full time,enjoy travelling etc.

Ok thank you. Well done on your recovery. Hopefully you wont need anymore surgery. You have aleviated some of my fears,  thank you, much appreciated . Well done on living  life to the full. Thanks again for replying and best wishes.

You're most welcome..

Good luck with the surgery xx

Hi Lucy,

I see you’ve already received a response - if you wanted to discuss anything more I had a resection at age 27 (now 35) initially for suspected fibrolamellar that was later confirmed as HCC. 

Hannah 

Hi Hannah, thanks for your reply. I do hope you are doing ok. Did you have any issues with what you could eat afterwards? And I presume your liver has healed and grown. I'm just concerned with having to have so much if my liver taken and gall bladder. Sorry I'm not sure what hhc is 

Thank you

Hi Lucy,

No issues at all with what I could eat, but I used it as an excuse to eats lots of chocolate. The main challenges I think are fatigue and being able to manoeuvre in and out of bed and from sit to stand/walking far. I felt tired for months after and remember the scar taking a longish time to heal. I was meant to have 50% taken and they took 30% in the end. It doesn’t grow back in a physical sense, just the cells that remain become more productive. 

HCC is hepatocellular carcinoma, so regular liver cancer rather than a rarer variant. The mass was 15cm when resected and hadn’t metastasised so I was pleased with the outcome of the surgery.

Have they indicated what type you might have? And when is your surgery date?