WHEW! What a relief!
Dr Pitman said that the Tumor Board agreed that Radiation is not needed and that we can go with our original plan of doing the Micro Flap Excision and Laser Ablation on the cord until we get a clean biopsy! Woo Hoo!!!!! What wonderful news! After this recovery, i believe I could return to work the day after the other surgeries! Ok, maybe 2 days after. Point is, they are NOTHING compared to what I have gone through the past 8 days!
I took her cookies, honoring my end of the bargain (if you will give me stitches instead of staples, I will bring you cookies). She said that I made them rethink how they close folks up. They had another younger woman in for the same type thing and they gave her stitches as well. Dr Pitman said that I have a nice looking scar.
There is so much more to tell about the visit. Just can't go into it all right now. Maybe I'll have time to tonight. If not, tomorrow.
Oh well, might as well....
Remember we expected to have to do therapy on the shoulder because this surgery "always" damages the nerve that controls the shoulder because the nerve runs right through the area that they are working on? Well, (imagine this) MY nerve was "out of place" and completely out of the surgical area...so it was not damaged at all. Amazing, Huh? Go Figure!
My scar really is not bad at all. Even today, after just getting the stitches out.
When this is all over, I will be no worse for wear.
Which brings me back to my original belief about the whole thing...there had to be more to this than me just having cancer. God is up to something.
Also, I am back to having Carcinoma In Situ. Funny, before, it scared me to death. Now it is a relief. the diagnosis is the same. Everything is relative.
Dr Pitman said that she is handing me back to Dr Schwienfurth for my primary care, but that I can call on her at any time. She said she was so relieved when she got my results. The look on her face answered one of my questions...it really does matter to her how the path results turn out. Maybe I should have asked her if she did the "Happy Dance".
Hugs
K
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
GOOD NEWS
Calvin rushed through the door and said that Dr Donaldson called. The pathology results are GOOD! My lymph nodes are clear and the cancer on my cords is now considered non-invasive! I am so stinkin excited!
My immediate thought is...so did we accomplish what we set out to do? The answer to that question holds as much excitement as any of the rest of this...Did we show Christ to anyone during this trial? More importantly, did we show Christ to the one(s) HE put in our path?
I am too excited to write any more....and I am in dire need of pain meds...
Thank you for all your prayers and encouragement. You have blessed my life by being part of it!
WOO HOO!!!!!
K
My immediate thought is...so did we accomplish what we set out to do? The answer to that question holds as much excitement as any of the rest of this...Did we show Christ to anyone during this trial? More importantly, did we show Christ to the one(s) HE put in our path?
I am too excited to write any more....and I am in dire need of pain meds...
Thank you for all your prayers and encouragement. You have blessed my life by being part of it!
WOO HOO!!!!!
K
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Church was just amazing today! Exausting, but amazing.
Sunday school was great. Dusty taught for me and did a super-great job.
Worship was almost more than I could bear. Every song was about following God where ever He leads, Drawing closer to HIm, you get the picture.
I have been so caught up in getting well, that I have not thought much about the pathology results.
Today God reminded me that I am still His child and that I have still been called to walk this road and that I have likely not reached the end of it yet.
Today I surrendered myself to Him all over again. However long this road is, however dark this valley may get, wherever He leads, I will go....not just go, I will gladly follow. I know that He will not leave me or forsake me. I am confident that He is in control of my life and of this cancer. I am thankful for the terrible nausea and for the light headedness and for the weakness and for the pain in my neck and throat, since they have worked together to keep my mind off of the inevitable....the dreaded "test results".
Both doctors said that what they removed looked normal, from a visual perspective. I hope beyond hope that the pathology results show the same. I still don't have a peace with the thought "it's all over, the tests are normal". Perhaps it is, like my Sunday School class noted, my way of preparing myself for potential bad news. Maybe so.
Either way, I barely made it through the worsip service. One of my favorite mental pictures is climbing into Christ's lap, laying my head on His chest, and listening to the beating of His heart. Sometimes, when I am alone and totally focused on Him, I swear I can hear His heart beat. This morning, Dave and Christa taught us a new song, and some of the lyrics were something about crawling into Your lap and feeling Your breath and listening to Your heart beat. I nearly lost it.
Please forgive me if you do not relate to God this way. He is so very personal to me and I am so thankful that He has allowed me to walk this road. He just reminded me today that I must still be willing to follow where He leads.
Hugs
K
Sunday school was great. Dusty taught for me and did a super-great job.
Worship was almost more than I could bear. Every song was about following God where ever He leads, Drawing closer to HIm, you get the picture.
I have been so caught up in getting well, that I have not thought much about the pathology results.
Today God reminded me that I am still His child and that I have still been called to walk this road and that I have likely not reached the end of it yet.
Today I surrendered myself to Him all over again. However long this road is, however dark this valley may get, wherever He leads, I will go....not just go, I will gladly follow. I know that He will not leave me or forsake me. I am confident that He is in control of my life and of this cancer. I am thankful for the terrible nausea and for the light headedness and for the weakness and for the pain in my neck and throat, since they have worked together to keep my mind off of the inevitable....the dreaded "test results".
Both doctors said that what they removed looked normal, from a visual perspective. I hope beyond hope that the pathology results show the same. I still don't have a peace with the thought "it's all over, the tests are normal". Perhaps it is, like my Sunday School class noted, my way of preparing myself for potential bad news. Maybe so.
Either way, I barely made it through the worsip service. One of my favorite mental pictures is climbing into Christ's lap, laying my head on His chest, and listening to the beating of His heart. Sometimes, when I am alone and totally focused on Him, I swear I can hear His heart beat. This morning, Dave and Christa taught us a new song, and some of the lyrics were something about crawling into Your lap and feeling Your breath and listening to Your heart beat. I nearly lost it.
Please forgive me if you do not relate to God this way. He is so very personal to me and I am so thankful that He has allowed me to walk this road. He just reminded me today that I must still be willing to follow where He leads.
Hugs
K
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