Recovering from Surgery

My apologies for not updating you all sooner.  These past two weeks have gone by so fast for me.  I can hardly remember anything from the first week becuase of all the meds I was on.  The surgery went very well.  It actually went better than expected by the surgeons.  Friday after the surgery we recieved the pathology report on all of the stuff they took out of me.  There was no cancer anywhere!!  Not even in the lymph nodes.  I have been healed by the Great Physician!!  I have so much more to share about what God has done through all of this, not just in my body.  He has done so much more than just take cancer away from my body.  He has healed me in my mind and my spirit.  He has healed relationships that were broken.  He has built up my faith.  He has revived my vision and purpose.  I was telling someone the other day that it is like my life before cancer was lived in black and white, and now I am living in color.  I am so thankful for that. 

Jonni and I went this past weekend to pick up our children from SC.  We are so thankful to have them back with us at home.  It has been really hard for me to not pick them up too much.  I just want to squeeze them and love on them, but I am still too sore, and I still have some of the drains in.  I had five when I came out of surgery and now I have two left.  Hopefully they will come out next week.  I had an appointment this past Wednesday with the plastic surgeon.  They have started the reconstruction process, and I was not anticipating this, but it has been very painful.  Before Wednesday, I had been off of all my pain meds for a few days, but now I am taking them again.  We have to finish the initial phase of reconstruction in the next two weeks, and then the following week they want to start radiation.  I am supposed to have radiation everyday, Monday through Friday, for five and half weeks. 

Thank you so much for all of your prayers and support.  People ask me all of the time if I have a good support group, and I just smile.  I have been so blessed by so many people throughout all of this.  I just can't possibly say how thankful I am for all of you.