Surgery

Lily_Anne
Lily_Anne Member Posts: 39
in Ovarian Cancer #1

Hi Ladies,

Not posted for a while, feeling a bit stressed. Tomorrow is surgery day. I have packed my bag and trying to be positive.

The incision is breast bone to pubic bone, and hopefully the alien in my pelvis will be evicted. I'm really worried about the stoma, but myabe, just maybe it can be avoided.

Just feeling sorry for myself tonight

LA xx

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  • NoTimeForCancer
    NoTimeForCancer Member Posts: 3,506 Member
    #2
    Lilly Anne, you can feel

    Lilly Anne, you can feel anyway you want, you know it is ok with all the ladies on this board. 

    You are in my thoughts and prayers now and tomorrow. 

    Hugs

  • lovesanimals
    lovesanimals Member Posts: 1,366 Member
    #3
    NoTimeForCancer said:

    Lilly Anne, you can feel

    Lilly Anne, you can feel anyway you want, you know it is ok with all the ladies on this board. 

    You are in my thoughts and prayers now and tomorrow. 

    Hugs

    Dear Lily Anne

    Sending lots of prayers and good wishes your way and I'll be thinking of you tomorrow.

    Warm hugs,

    Kelly

  • LorettaMarshall
    LorettaMarshall Member Posts: 662 Member
    #4
    Lily Anne - Praying for you & your surgeons

     

     

     

     

    Dear Lily Anne

     

     Your anxiety is clearly understood.  Tonight won’t be the best night’s rest you’ve ever had, but in the morning the doctors will put you to sleep”.  image         

               Having had Cytoreductive surgery @ University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in July of 2013, I know exactly what the “breast to pubic” incision” feels and looks like.   I’ve put your name on my calendar for "today" since it's already past midnight.  Like so many others here, I will be praying that the doctors have had a “good night’s sleep” and you are the only thing on their minds as you enter the operating room.

     

     My doctors assured me they would only take out the “non-essential” organs.  I said, “Did you ask the Lord about that?  After all, He put them in there!”  Thankfully, after I awoke, the doctor told me he preferred not to perform an ileostomy.  I was relieved to know that. 

     

            Bottom line is, you want them to take out whatever they have to if the “alien” is evicted as well.  Try to put all the “what-ifs” that you cannot control, on the back burner.  And yes, that’s a daily exercise once you’ve been diagnosed with Ovarian cancer.  I try to concentrate on the things “I can still do” rather than worry over things I cannot control.    In your “about me” comments, you say your “husband’s faith” has been key in your ability to cope.  I’m sure he will continue to be by your side encouraging you every step of the way.  And though we are far away, distance is no problem when we pray for one another.  Prayers travel faster than the speed of light.

     

            Thursday is Thanksgiving Day and we are still alive.  So in that sense, every day is “Thanksgiving”, is it not?  May God, the “Great Physician” make His presence felt in a special way for you and your husband tomorrow.  And may He guide the surgeons’ hands as well. 

     

    Prayerfully,

     

    Loretta

     

    (Peritoneal Carcinomatosis/Ovarian Cancer, Stage IV) diagnosed November 2012.

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • molimoli
    molimoli Member Posts: 514
    #5
    I am thinking of you Lily-Anne

    I am hoping that all went well with your surgery.

    Can't wait to hear ,I ache to know how you are.

    Hope you can feel my comforting hugs if only in your mind

    The very same or similar  road is ahead for me. I understand your worries.

    Get better soon Lily -Anne We are behind you  causing a gust of wind for your climb.

    Nuff love, Moli. 

     

  • Katewojo
    Katewojo Member Posts: 2
    #6

    Dear Lily Anne,

    Sending thoughts and prayers your way that the "alien intruder" has been evicted for you!

    Hope you are up and maybe moving around so you can start feeling more like your wonderful self ASAP!

    Keeping good thoughts and keep us posted!

    Good thoughts only!!!

     

    Kate

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