Surgery

I was pretty nervous to have surgery. I've never had any type of large surgery in my life. Our small group did a conference call that Thursday night to pray over me. It was so encouraging to have them pray over us.

Taking a pre-surgery photo during our conference call. 

Matt's parents flew in town on two separate flights the day before surgery because all the flights were full. His dad didn't get in until really late that night. 

Matt and I woke up at 4am and headed down to the hospital. It was such a strange feeling knowing I was about to go under. We had to be there at 5:30 am and wait until 7:30am. It was the strangest thing. I calmly fell asleep while I was waiting. That could have only been possible due to prayers. God covered me the entire time!

The surgeon came out and told Matt that she removed 3 lymph nodes. As of now they looked non-cancerous, but we won't get the final results until the full pathology report is done next week. 

Matt's mom stayed with me Friday and Saturday night in the hospital. It worked best for Matt to be home with the kids if they woke in the middle of the night. She was an awesome caretaker. I threw up a couple of times Friday afternoon due to anesthesia. The nurses took care of my pain pretty well. They were all great. My mom kept Hudson at her house the whole weekend. It helped us so much. Matt and Bill even managed to take Roman and Carmen to his soccer game on Saturday and then church on Sunday. Everything worked out as smooth as possible. God covered us so much. 

The chemo volunteer nurse, Sandy, came and visited me. It brought me to tears to see her face. She has been an angel to me this entire process. 

I was up walking the halls by Saturday. Matt helped me so much. 

We have Matt and Pam trained to drain my two drains. Hopefully I will get them taken out this Thursday. 

Overall, having the double masectomy wasn't near as bad as I thought it would be. I feel blessed to have so many prayers. I truly felt them the entire time!