Great news with a hint of doubt

I had my check up at OU OKC and everything is healing perfectly! PTL! Thank you for praying for our drive. I survived. 😉 

The doctor said two more weeks before I can carry more than a gallon of milk. Also, he said it can take months to get my body back to accepting food normally since the stomach, colon and pancreas were all impacted and aide in digestion. I am only able to eat about 1/2 cup of food at a time and very few options settle well. I’ve lost 15 pounds since surgery so he said just eat anything my stomach will accept. He suggested that I get an appointment with pain management to help with ongoing discomfort, which I’ll talk to my home health nurse about tomorrow. 

He surprised us with the pathology report of everything that was removed and it showed there was cancer in ALL areas they removed except the stomach. I was shocked! I thought most of that was removed because of radiation scarring. I’m so thankful God gave me peace and even a sense of urgency to do the surgery. 

So the pancreas, spleen, kidney and adrenal gland are all good clear margins and the cancer should be gone. The colon they couldn’t tell if the margins were good because of the way the robot removes tissue, but there was only a cluster of 20 cells that showed cancer so they are hopeful that they got it. And on my back he sent in a sample and it was cancer there also, but he burned that entire area on my back so I’m hoping I’m good, but there’s no way to tell right now. It’s too early for scans while I’m full of inflammation.  He said he feels 99.5 % sure he got everything out, but we have to lean on our faith for the other .5% as this tumor had lots of little fingers reaching out. Pray and claim it’s all actually gone with us. Although the percentage feels good, there are still unknowns, which felt overwhelming today, and the enemy would like nothing more than to discourage us in our faith, stealing our joy and peace. 

Danina reminded me of this great quote. 

“Never doubt in the dark what God told you in the light”.  

I came across this while scrolling social media tonight. 

And Amy reminded me of the scripture in Isaiah 55:9-11. 

“As the heavens are higher than the earth,
    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts than your thoughts.

As the rain and the snow
    come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
    without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
    so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,

so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
    It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
 and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.“

Lastly, I always turn to Psalm 91. 

Fall fresh on us Lord as we soak up your scripture to fight off the enemy and increase our belief. Be our refuge and our peace. - Amen