The big day is here! Surgery at 1:00pm

Oh, I have been so bad about keeping my blog updated:(  I think it has been 6 or 8 weeks since I have written an update.  A lot of things have happened!

I finished chemo 4 1/2 weeks ago. YEA!!!! I am so happy to know that each day I feel better, I'm not just preparing for another dose of poison.  I learned the depth of the truth of Proverbs 31: 30, " Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised".  Anyone that has just skin deep beauty will have a rude awakening if they ever get cancer.  I have to admit I have a little bit of vanity in me.  I got my rude awakening when my hair fell out, my fingernails and toenails fell off, I got covered with a rash, and to top it all of, my eyes kept tearing and tearing.  I had to carry a Kleenex around with me to constantly wipe my eyes--of course that's a problem you deal with when you only have 6 eyelashes left:)

I'm not complaining...I'm so excited!  Tomorrow (actually today) is surgery day.  Do you ever look forward to something when it is far away, and then when it gets close you get a little apprehensive????  Well...that's me right now.  I am feeling a little bit of anxiety, but I have a tremendous amount of prayer support.  I couldn't ask for more.  God is just carrying me though the process.  The biggest thing I was dreading was the anesthesia, but instead, as I have had such a crazy rough week, now I have a new perspective on anesthesia---I'm looking forward to it!!! I will count "10...9...8......and I will be in lala land, happy as can be.  See, God changed my perspective from one week to the next.

God also beautifully orchestrated some tricky things together to get me the surgeons that I want, the procedure that I want, and the hospital that I want.  Originally my insurance gave me a surgeon that only practices at Hemet Hospital, and a Plastic Surgeon that practices everywhere except Hemet Hospital.  After a little whining and complaining, I got a referral to Loma Linda Hospital in Murrieta, a wonderful new surgeon, and my plactic surgeon whom I love.  God just works everything together so nicely.

I will get to the hospital at 9:00 am Tuesday morning, get checked in and prepped and go to Nuclear Med.  Then I will get an injection, and go back to finish getting ready for surgery.  My case starts at 1:00.  I am so blessed to have two amazing surgeons in the operating room with me.  I will have bilateral mastectomy and they will start the reconstruction immediately, with the Plastic Surgeon placing "expanders".

Please play for me, and pray for my family.  It will be a very long day.  I believe the surgery takes about 5 hours.  God's arms have been around me all this time, I have complete confidence that he will continue to keep me in His arms:).  His Word says He will never fail or forsake me.  I believe that!

My daughter will be updating my blog while mom is under the weather.  God bless you.  We covet your prayer and your comments.

God bless you,
Jane