Gail

[Guest guest]

Gail,

It is your faith that will get you through this. God works in mysterious ways.

There is always a purpose for everything in our lives and this surgery in your

life is more about the fact that God used it to probably save your life. Keep

praying and have your church pray for you. I have personally known people who

had cancer and were told that they did not think that they could cure it. Our

church had a prayer vigil and when they went in to have the surgery the cancer

was completely gone. The doctors could not explain it, but our church could.

God is divine and can heal you, so keep your spirits up and don't stop praying.

I will be praying for you. I know that it may sound crazy, but them finding

that cancer was a blessing. Had he not looked and found it you might have never

known. Now you have the chance to fight it. Stay strong. If you need anything

from me personally feel free to contact me privately if it makes you feel

better.

May God bless you and heal you,

Dora in Tennessee

Lap/Open RNY (date?)

Vanderbilt Hospital

451/445.6/150

home-had complications

I am home. You were all right, this was not an eacy process. I had

the gastric bypass on monday and knew that my gall bladder had to

come out too. But something scary happened in surgery. I had the

surgery open, and my doc knows my family history of cancer so he

decided to just " check " my ovaries. He found a tumor larger than his

fist on my left ovary. They had to stop the surgery, get my husbands

permission to remove it, freeze it and get a FAST biopsy on it. That

came back benign, so he removed the left ovary and did the bypass.

The whole tumor and ovary has been sent off now, and so we are

waiting and praying for those results. My poor family was put

through the wringer that day, the pastor and other family had driven

over 120 miles to be there and immediately went to prayer. I know

that it will all be ok, and I am so thankful that I chose to have

this surgery, or that tumor would still be hiding in me. I am on the

losing side now ladies. and sore sore sore. When I was in recovery,

my doctor tried to tell me what happened, but he said I would not

remember anything he was telling me. He was wrong. So when my

husband finally got to come in to me, he would try to tell me and I

would just cry and shake my head and go to sleep. I heard him tell

my mom on the phone that he had not gotten to talk to me for over 30

seconds, and then I would drift off crying. So I braved up and let

him tell me what happened and what we are facing. I am ok now,

because I believe God led me to this surgeon to save my life, and my

husband and I keep telling him this. ok, I can't sit up any longer,

just wanted to let you guys know I am home and well. I hope to see

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