May 15th....Dr. Hoverman and unforeseen miracles...

Later when Dr. Hoverman came in to talk to me it came up in our discussion that “Dr. Williams (another OB that assisted her in the surgery) said after they discovered the cancer, she was meant to come in today for us to find this”. Dr. Hoverman said the same thing to me when she took the uterus out this blob/mass about the size of 50¢piece fell into that space where the uterus was. Since they were doing the hysterectomy vaginally they had a hard time seeing where it came from. She thought it came from the colon wall or was maybe pushed up against it. So she looked at the ovaries and they looked good, then she went inside the bladder to make sure nothing cancer like was there and it looked good also. Between the doctors they couldn’t really tell where the source was coming from but since it was attached to the fallopian tube they concluded that must be where the source came from. They sent everything off to pathology and said it would take 3-5 days before we knew anything. So far it’s been the longest 4 days of my life (two of which pathology doesn’t work because it’s the weekend). So really the earliest we would hear something would be Tuesday and the latest hopefully would be Friday. We would be in St. George by then so I asked her to call me with the staging results.

I asked her what would happen next. She said that I would have a cat scan and that she would refer us to on OB GYN Oncologist and they would take it from there. I asked if I would lose my hair she said yes probably. She explained that they treat it like ovarian cancer. First surgery, where they would take out the ovaries, whatever lymph nodes might be affected and any peritoneal lining they think might be affected. I’m sure I asked her more questions but I started to become numb at that point. I thanked her for all her help. She left and I just sat there pondering how my life was going to be changing. One thing I did know is that I wanted a picture of me with my hair before I started to lose it and the family. I also was worried how Parker would take the news. Mark was afraid he would say if I’d only gone out sooner I would’ve been back by now to help. My opinion- I think him being on his mission is a blessing that will help us through this and that maybe him being out serving made it possible for them to find it when they did.