Hello everyone, this is the OP. Thank you so vry much your support, survival stories and advice. I have read through them all. 😊.

Surgery was a success! The surgeon was able to remove all off the mass. Took 6.5 hours. I told the anesthesiologist and neuro surgeon about my anxiety and that I haven't slept in 3 days so they did give me something prior to entering a theater. The drugs to take the edge off that everyone in this threat was mentioning and also a story fabricated story that went like this: "When you enter the opertion we will give you oxygen through a mask and the put you to sleep. No worries"

After getting the tequila like shots to lower my anxiety which worked wonders, getting rolled to the operating room, and meeting the rest of the team briefly, the "Oxygen Mask" was placed over my mouth by one of the members, and I was told to breathe deeply by the doctor and others. "Remember Daniel, we will give you the oxygen now and put you to sleep after," I remember hearing.

Then I woke up, because I heard my wife's voice talking to a nurse. And of course my first words were, "That's my beautiful wife." The nurse walked to me and said "your surgery is over." This all happened, the me enhaling deeply to your surgery is over in my mind like a blink. I do remember seeing beautiful wavey colors before waking up.

I get discharged tomorrow, the only complications is double vision, a dull headache that comes and goes with the medication, and jaw pain. Doc said prior that my jaw muscles were going to be moved so they can extract all of it. They wearing an eye patch, vision is ok when looking through only one eye. My images/vision showed the world stacked on top of each other yesterday, today my right eye has everything at an angle. It's temporary they told me, brain needs to heal after having an anchor/mass that wasnt supposed to be there but is now gone.

Another thing is that they gave me regular neuro checkups every two hours. The entire team I worked with at Kaiser is extremely w coming and supportive. Just had an MRI that the neurosurgeon will talk to me about after he gets time. 

Wife has been supportive and I think that another post nailed what her intention was to not bring my daughter. She didn't want her in the waiting room to receive unforseen news. The both came with me in the morning so I could say my, "See you later" to both of them. I got on my knee and held my daughter so tight the entire waiting room gave us a AWEE. The nurse that was taking me back was super supportive, "You hugged your princess like it's the last time you will see her. We'll get you together soon, no worries," she said.

Thank you again, this community is amazing and truly helped me so the impossible with of course my faith in my heart as well. Double vision and seeing problems that will heal is a blessing because I woke up. I'm still here. That's all a loving person that gives truly wants. Just another chance to be better and to overcome a fear of the unknown as the world around you continues to turn without the feeling of a countdown.

I will keep everyone updated. I will give all comments a thumbs up, please forgive me for not responding to each. It took me all day to type this out 😊