Prayers are on the way, KC.
Posted on 11/29/2019 10:39:28 AM PST by KC Burke
This post is to ask for prayers for a very serious surgery I am scheduled to have this next Wednesday. It is a 4 to 7 hour long gastrectomy to remove my stomach with its related stage three cancerous tumor, now dead from chemo.
I was diagnosed with stage 3 stomach cancer in July.
The current “best practices” calls for four component FLOT chemotherapy, scan for lack of spread, gastrectomy if the patient can endure it, then a follow-up second four rounds of chemo. I have been undergoing cardiac evaluation the last week to see if I have a strong enough heart to endure this surgery. They could cancel or delay the surgery and that won’t be final until Monday afternoon or Tuesday.
At the time I started chemo there were a few posters to whom it was appropriate to mention the challenge I was involved in, but since I had a very good team locally, I didn’t want to create the impression that I was looking for healthcare alternatives or did not have good guidance, thereby prompting a nine month thread of comments that I would have trouble keeping up with and doing justice to the thoughts that others might contribute.
I am fortunate to have the Honor Health / Virginia G. Piper Cancer center for the home of my aggressive young Oncologist. He coordinates with my M. D. Anderson surgeon who has a Sloan-Kettering oncological surgical fellowship and is the top Gastric Surgeon in the west half of the US as far as I can tell.
At 71 years a four to seven hour surgery is no small undertaking, especially with some cardiac disease. I hope to make it through, continue my wonderful life with my beloved wife (the angel of my life) and enjoy my children, step-children and ten grandchildren (with another one due in February).
Hospital stay is four to seven days, and recovery is six to eight weeks as the digestive track has to accustom itself to very small meals. Some adapt easily, others with difficulty.
I am enjoying a modest retirement, that I took at close to 67, having a romantic juggernaut with my wife of 22 years and enjoying old and new friends. Twenty years of Free Republic has been no small part of a larger fellowship of faith and like minds. I thank you all for making that great and I remember fondly those that have gone before me.
KC Burke
Prayers up for you, FRiend. May all go well, and may you experience healing and restoration, in Jesus Holy Name, Amen.
Godspeed FRiend.
Prayers for you and your medical team!
Prayers for a successful surgery and a speedy and complete recovery!
May the Lord bless you and keep you and your family.
Prayers up for you FRiend! Please keep us updated.
Pinging my FRiends to join me in praying for you to have successful surgery and a complete recovery.
Prayers are on the way, KC.
Thank you, deo.
Praying for your complete recovery.
Leni/MinuteGal
Thoughts and prayers....
KC.
My best to you and prayers to our God to guide the doctors, the Holy Spirit to strengthen to you and and your wife, and Christ to watch with and comfort you in your illness.
Prayers being said for you and your family for successful treatment/surgery and complete recovery, and comfort for your family. Amen.
Thanks to all of you. My wife sends thanks as well.
We had to go buy some more items needed for visiting relatives coming in for our support. This will be our fourth of six groups of family and friends that have visited as we have moved forward in this battle. Any poster dropped I will firmly blame on my still side-effect numbed hands and fingers which make typing a truly difficult task,
Perhaps some day I will write an essay on the vast variety of Chemo side effects when you have a four chemo cocktail infusion program but it would be a long essay.
I will be thinking of you and praying for you. If you need someone to commiserate with you know where I am.
Prayers that all goes well for you and that you make a full and speedy recovery !
Sorry to hear of you medical issues.
Good luck and best wishes for the Wensday op.
Will be keeping you in our thought here at the alfa6 domicile.
Best Regards
alfa6 ;>}
God bless and keep you and your sweet family....and friends who are waging this battle with you.
Praying for His healing, strength, comfort and peace, for all....In His Holy name.
Prayers up. Hugs and Love too.
May the Dear Lord comfort and protect you and your loved ones, Guide your health care team, and provide perfect grace in Godspeed. In Jesus Name, Amen.
*** “Perhaps some day I will write an essay on the vast variety of Chemo side effects when you have a four chemo cocktail infusion program but it would be a long essay” ***
I would read it, something that in-depth should take years to write.
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