Going Home

Praise God Linda’s numbness in her lower right leg has almost completely dissipated. She is now able to get out of bed and walk around on her own. Thankful her abdominal muscle spasms ceased starting Saturday. Because of all of this they are allowing us to take her home later this afternoon.

Thank you for continuing to pray for Linda to be completely restored to health. That all remaining numbness would cease and that her pain would continue to be managed.

Please Keep the Prayers Coming…

Last night was more challenging than any of us had anticipated. Linda started getting muscle spasms/charliehorses in her abdomen around the incision sight a little before midnight. They were so intense that she could barely breath and wasn’t able to talk. Initially they lasted between 2-3mins.

The nurse was terrific!! She noticed that there was an order for an addition pain killer on top of the epidural. However, it was the narcotic that made Linda violently throw-up after her second surgery. The nurse heard that and went through the appropriate channels to get Linda a different additional pain killer. In the end we were able to “manage” Linda’s pain, to a point.

This morning the doctors decided to take a different approach. They took her off of the narcotics and put her on an anti-inflammatory along with an additional oral pain killer. Praise God this took away the abdominal muscle spasms, allowing them to remove the catheter and helping to facilitate her getting up and moving around.

That is when it became apparent just how numb Linda still was on the lower right side of her body. At this point Linda is slowly and steadily regaining feeling on the lower right side of her body. However, they removed her epidural early this afternoon and are a bit concerned there is still numbness.

PLEASE PRAY that this numbness would cease!! That Linda’s body would come back into alignment! That she would be completely restored to health! That her pain would continue to be managed in a way that enables her to be mobile!

Thank you for your continued love, support and well wishes. I have been reading or playing the well wishes for her as they come in.

In gratitude!

Sing Hallelujah!!!!

First off, Linda had a successful surgery! Praise God, the initial pathology says that it is NOT cancer. We will have the final pathology by Wednesday.

As for the surgery…they were able to remove both ovaries without damaging any of the surrounding organs. In addition to the ovaries, they also decided to take her appendix for precautionary measure. The reason being that the type of tumor the ovarian cyst was made up of, is also the type of tumor that likes to grown on the appendix. The doctors felt that it would be safer to remove the appendix now, instead of taking the chance that a tumor might develop in the future. Thus removing any potential future operation.

Her vitals were strong throughout the surgery and she had minimal blood loss.

TRULY WE COULD NOT HAVE ASKED FOR MORE!

We are expecting to be able to take Linda home Sunday afternoon or Monday. The doctor has told us that she will need to get up, out of her hospital bed and walk around tomorrow to help facilitate a speedy recovery and release from the hospital.

We thank you all for your love and support during Linda’s Healing Journey! You have all helped to carry the load on this healing journey. For that we will always be grateful!

Thank you for continuing to pray for Linda’s speed, full recovery.