Posted on 05/27/2008 2:52:13 PM PDT by Pyro7480
I would be grateful for your prayers as I prepare to enter the hospital for the completion of my thyroidectomy this Tuesday. The operation is at 7:30 a.m. and I expect to be in the hospital until Wednesday afternoon. After that, I will have stitches in my throat until they are removed the following Tuesday morning.
I wrote previously about my first surgery last January 29, when a tumor was removed from my thyroid that proved to be Stage 1 cancer. Thank God it was caught before it could spread. Tuesday's operation is to remove the rest of my thyroid so that the odds of my having a recurrence of this type of cancer will be reduced to zero. No thyroid will also mean no Hashimoto's disease, a condition that was likewise diagnosed with the removal of the tumor. I can get along fine without the gland by taking thyroid hormone pills, which I have been taking for the past 15 years anyway due to a hypothyroidism.
Prayers are especially needed right now because I have been feeling blue in anticipation of the surgery and the treatment with radioactive-iodine pills that I will need six weeks after the procedure. The radioactive-iodine treatment will involve another short hospital stay plus isolation for a few days at home. Its purpose is to knock out any thyroid tissue that may be remaining in my body. The treatment is not supposed to be painful in and of itself, but the hospitalization and isolation sounds to me like it will be uncomfortable.
I do feel extremely blessed in that my condition is fully curable with treatment, and I know I am getting the best treatment available. The hard part is just having to go through what it is necessary I go through in order to be healed. I can take comfort in reading my previous entries and seeing how happy I was after my first surgery, but the thought of having to return to the hospital six weeks after this coming operation is daunting. I just want this whole experience to be over, and in the meantime I need God's grace to offer it up and get through it.
One beautiful thing about this experience, as with my previous surgery, is that some of my friends nearby are asking what they can do to help. I have asked a couple of them individually to meet me for lunch or dinner over the weekend, so that I will have something to look forward to while recovering at home this week. I have also told them and others who have offered aid that I will take them up on their offer in the middle of July, when I am home after taking the radioactive iodine. During that time of isolation, they can brighten my days by leaving a hot meal outside my door.
Many thanks to those of you who are praying for me. I will pray for you too. While I am recovering, I hope to catch up on fulfilling the requests I received upon offering free copies of my book to priests, religious, and seminarians—something on which I fell behind during my touring (though I have managed to fulfill some 140-odd requests so far).
Catholic ping!
Prayers for God’s Blessings.
Prayers up for Dawn for lifting spirits and happy recovery.
Amen, and, Amen!
Prayers to you. Stay strong.
This Southern Baptist boy is praying hard for you, Dawn.
God bless you.
Oh, sorry if you misunderstood, but the post was written by Dawn Eden, not me.
Prayers sent.
Yes, prayers to Dawn. Thanks.
Prayers for this fine lady’s swift recovery.
It sounds like she most likely has dodged the bullet here, but oftentimes painful, boring, and tedious procedures are worse to endure than a last-ditch lifesaving effort. Both my parents are cancer-free today, but boy what they had to go through to get there!
I pray that all goes well and according to plan, that her discomfort is minimal and her isolation not too wearing, and that she has a quick and uneventful recovery and complete freedom from any risk of recurrence of the cancer.
O Jesus Christ, Messiah and Lord, grant me joyful acceptance of the surgery which awaits me, and let this be the relief and cure which I seek. Make skilled the work of the surgeon and that of his team for it is unto their knowledge and skill that I give myself for healing. I pray You, O Lord, that this procedure will be without complication, and that my recovery will be speedy and complete. Amen.
Prayer for Dawn Eden, a courageous, funny, gutsy and God-acious lady. (Is that a word?)
Lord,
Please heal your servant Dawn and guide her doctors.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, amen.
Prayers lifted.
Prayers!
Having been in the hospital myself recently, I send my prayers for Dawn too!
Prayers up for Dawn!
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