To all my Freeper friends who prayed for me — surgery went extremely well. Doctor removed 6 lymph nodes; biopsy will be in doctor’s hands by next week in time for appointment.
Here’s an update on my surgery today.
Everything went well and I’m encouraged by the good news. Waiting
for biopsies on the lymph nodes now.
Six lymph nodes were removed. Dr. says he’ll have the pathology reports before I meet with him on Nov 3.
I will say that it was a wonderful experience, if you can call such surgery “wonderful.”
Pastor Rensner was waiting for us in the surgical waiting area when we got to the hospital at 8:32. Quint had to pull me off the computer (translation: strongly suggested) because I was still answering prayer notices that people put on Facebook and also from my web site.
I decided to go “global” to all the readers around the world because I thought if anyone could benefit from my personal experience, it might save lives.
As it turned out, a number of women from faraway places said that since reading about the choices of “we can watch the benign cyst every three months” versus “we can have the lumpectomy” — they have decided to go ahead with their own lumpectomy when they found out that underneath my cyst was the tiniest little cluster of cancer cells (only 6 mm).
I had a C125 blood test and a liver enzyme test following the lumpectomy and both came back normal. Dr. says he did not do as extensive a surgery as he had originally planned on removal of breast tissue. If there are any “lurkers” in other areas of the breast, the radiation will take care of them when time comes for me to do the “glowing in the dark routine.” (That’s what I call radiation.) Dr. says I will not need a prosthesis. Isn’t that amazing!?!!
I was Dr.’s third surgery of the day and he came to be with me after his second surgery. He spent about twenty minutes in the room, along with Quint (who had questions) and he was also familiary with Pastor Rensner. He thanked Pastor for being with me too. I thanked Boyajian profusely because it meant he’d have to go back and re-scrub.
I’ve already talked to the oncologist, Dr. Wade, (he actually answered his own phone) who is waiting for the surgon’s referral to get over to him. But I won’t see him until about a month or so after surgery, depending on how healing goes long.
God is good and I feel so blessed to have loving prayers from so many wonderful people. I am sure that God has put this experience in my life so that I can help others. My favorite Bible verse is Eph. 2:10 and my confirmation Bible verse was 1 Cor.10:13. I have kept them in my heart for years and they have guided me through some rough times and hard decisions.