This is a picture someone made for us while we were playing cards during Jo Ann's surgery today. We all got there at 8, when she was supposed to arrive. We tag teamed visiting with her 2 at a time until they finally took her back for surgery at noon. She was only in there about an hour and 20 minutes, and then she came out to recovery for a while and then into her room until around 6:30 when they let her go home. That was really quick, but she handled it beautifully. Her daughter, Kristy is here for a week with her and Frank, so she'll be fine. Of course we'll be checking on her. She'll have home health coming to take care of her drains for a week or two, also. Thank God for a good day for her. They will have to do pathology on all they removed, but the doctor said she felt 99.9% sure that she could guarantee she got it all and she'll be cancer free. What an awesome report!
We had a good day, too. It was fun to be with this group and Jo Ann was a wonderful patient. In the picture, is Jack and Tillie (we call them Silly and Tillie because Jack is such a card; he looks like Jonathan Winters and he's even funnier), Frank, me, Don and Kristy. Another girl was in the waiting room while her dad had surgery for a kidney stone and she was so interested in learning how to play Hand and Foot Canasta! It was fun to meet her, and I'm emailing the rules to the game to her. On the way home we stopped at the Golden Coral and ate; that was a nice treat and we were pretty hungry after all day at the hospital.
We got up at 5 to leave at 6, so we'd get to Lawton in time to eat breakfast before going to the hospital. So, it's been a long day for us. It's good to be home and it's wonderful to be healthy. It was a year ago two days ago that we came home from our stay in Houston for surgery and radiation. We've come a long way in this year and I thank God for His support and for YOURS!
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