Good morning everyone! Thank you so much for praying us all through yesterday! What a long day. Surgery was much later than anticipated. I'm not sure if it was the lack of food or laying on a hard pre-op gurney-like bed for hours, but I ...got the biggest headache. It even hurt in my entire face and I just wanted to go to sleep. The anesthesiologist mixed me a 3 part potion and it made it go away finally. I think it made me go to sleep too bc I don't remember much after that. I was so thankful! Surgery is thought to be a big success. There was a lot of scar tissue and granulations tissue that they cleaned up. Where they had put what they call "flaps" from my leg muscles up into the pelvis the skin had not stayed healthy and lost at least one layer if not all. This allowed the two "flaps" to grow together with scar tissue. That tension and pain inside of me will now be gone once recovered. The granulation tissue on the outside is all gone and will heal as well. Funny thing is that they recoated those "flap" muscles with fetal cow collagen. It is stripped of cell, bacteria, blood vessels, nerves, etc and send in a hard form, but sterile. They add moisture back to it and sew it to me as needed, then my cells and nerves, etc will grow into it and make it part of me. Modern medicine is amazing! The Dr said a small piece of this calf collagen can cost up to $10,000! So I am thanking Jesus for my insurance right now too! As you can imagine these medical procedures of 2013 have done us in financially! Even with all the EXTREME generosity of everyone through the church, wepay account and directly. I want to say thank you for that once more bc I just can't say how much it has helped us this year! I have been so blessed and humbled that we know so many generous and many anonymous people willing to help this way! We will pay this forward as soon as we can, and however we can!
Anyway, we had thought I'd get to go back to the hotel last night, but because they did more extensive work revising the reconstruction (flaps) and they inserted a stint to keep this from scarring together again, I have been put on bed rest and submitted to the hospital once again. The stint is painful and uncomfortable, but where they stitched the collagen is painful as well right now. They are doing the best they can to keep pain at bay while I'm stuck laying here for now. The nurses here are awesome! I got to see 4 that I know from before so far and they have gone out of their way to come see me. Such an amazing bunch of women that I thank God for as well.
Mom, Dad & Billy went to the hotel last night for a better nights sleep and will head back to see me soon. I'm so grateful to my parents who care for me as if I am still a toddler. They are fully devoted to my well-being and comfort. I'm thrilled that my husband got to come and be here to finish this process with me. I can hold his hand and feel safe and loved.
I love that my kids are having snow days with their cousins right now. That means they are so happy and the time will go by so fast for them.
God is good, all the time!
Oh, P.S. ~ Dad did ask the doctor what breed of cow the collagen comes from. They don't know, but I'm pretty sure it is a very high end breed! As you can imagine we got the doctors laughing with this line of questioning!See More
Anyway, we had thought I'd get to go back to the hotel last night, but because they did more extensive work revising the reconstruction (flaps) and they inserted a stint to keep this from scarring together again, I have been put on bed rest and submitted to the hospital once again. The stint is painful and uncomfortable, but where they stitched the collagen is painful as well right now. They are doing the best they can to keep pain at bay while I'm stuck laying here for now. The nurses here are awesome! I got to see 4 that I know from before so far and they have gone out of their way to come see me. Such an amazing bunch of women that I thank God for as well.
Mom, Dad & Billy went to the hotel last night for a better nights sleep and will head back to see me soon. I'm so grateful to my parents who care for me as if I am still a toddler. They are fully devoted to my well-being and comfort. I'm thrilled that my husband got to come and be here to finish this process with me. I can hold his hand and feel safe and loved.
I love that my kids are having snow days with their cousins right now. That means they are so happy and the time will go by so fast for them.
God is good, all the time!
Oh, P.S. ~ Dad did ask the doctor what breed of cow the collagen comes from. They don't know, but I'm pretty sure it is a very high end breed! As you can imagine we got the doctors laughing with this line of questioning!See More
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