[Originally written on January 5, 2015]
Well, the good news is that I’m home from the hospital already,
at 8 pm on Monday. Not exactly in one piece mind you, because I left some
behind and some has been sent to the pathologist for further assessment. But the
rest of me is doing quite well, thank you very much.
The bad news… Well, you know, there isn’t really any bad
news. Just some lingering questions and unknowns that will all come to light sometime
soon. That’s all. We hope to hear the results from the pathologist’s report
within a few days, which will give us some indication of whether or not the
cancer has spread at all.
The surgeon told us that it went very well—the surgery part
that is. He was able to get the lymph nodes that he wanted and there were no
complications.
A wonderful thing happened as we were waiting for the scheduled
surgery time. They decided to bump me up the schedule because there was a
plastic surgeon at that hospital today that my surgeon wanted to help him with
the skin grafting part.
As we arrived at the hospital this plastic surgeon, Dr. Nguyen, was just finishing up
another surgery and had an opening right then. So I got in an hour and a half
early and also had a plastic surgeon take care of the skin grafting part. So my
leg will look much prettier than one might imagine with part of my abdomen being attached to it, since the skin graft was taken from my stomach. (Okay, enough gory details, right? I’ll leave it there.)
So although I won’t be mobile at all for most of the rest of
this week, at least I’m home. The bed is more comfortable. The food is better,
and it doesn’t smell like a hospital here.
All is well. God is good and continues to provide real peace
and many blessings. Thanks for your prayers and encouragement.
Hello ,Thanks for share this post. I am medical student and for next month i am going to shift neurosurgery residency colony where i meet a experienced surgeon.
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