Ooops; Lost a Whole Post!

I posted a whole post awhile ago, but it's not showing, so I'll write it, again.  Gretta is doing great today.  There have been some tough times, but she takes them right in stride.  Overnight her IV got plugged and it wasn't delivering the pain meds to her, so when she woke up she was in a lot of pain. They gave her a new IV and some big pain meds to give her some relief.  They also made her rather loopy, but she takes all that in stride and goes right ahead to put one foot in front of the other.  I'm so proud of her.

It's really wonderful to be here to meet so many of her friends as they come in to see her!  Indeed she is blessed with some wonderful people in her life.  I thank God that she has made these wonderful friends.

Since they took out 8" of her colon and then reattached what was left they are being very careful about how she eats.  She still has not had even a liquid diet; she will so welcome a cup of coffee and a bowl of chicken broth!  It's a difficult wait for her.

I met her doctor this morning, so he explained everything to both of us.  He is very optimistic that she can totally be cured of this cancer.  He will know more about her staging when the results of the pathology comes in Monday or Tuesday.  He suspects that she is at stage 2, but if a couple of things are positive then she'll be a stage 3.  Either way, he believes she can beat this.  She will begin chemo in 3 - 4 weeks, once her body has healed from the surgery.  She'll have 6 rounds of chemo; one every 3 weeks, so she may be able to be done with it in 5 months.  She's ready.  She's braced for whatever, now!  I thank God for holding her in His arms as He does all of us who are willing to be held!

I'm doing fine.  I hope I can stay up to watch the Thunder/Clippers game tonight.  Thunder up!