Thank you all for such wonderful replies. I just brought hubby home. He is doing great...all things considered!!! He will be on pain meds for a few more days yet, and has to take it easy for a while. He will take this next week off work, and then "maybe" go in for 1/2 days the next week. The pathology results came back negative, so now we can finally stop worrying!
He had an envelope arrive by "snail mail" while he was in hospital. Since his coworkers had been planning something for his birthday, and he fooled them all by having surgery on his b'day, we expected it would be a b'day card. Nope. It was a hand written get-well note from the chancellor of the university that he works at!!! We were both very impressed!!
We are very fortunate to have good friends offer to help when it comes time to dig up the root veggies. There is not as much to harvest this year as most years as it was too wet in the spring to get a lot planted. Seems Someone had a plan all along. :)
Patti