The following is
the events for the week roughly (some of the info was stated earlier but now it
has added details). The email I sent to my family;
As most of you have recently been aware I had a hysterectomy
on the 15th of May. I had been having some bleeding issues that weren't going
away which prompted the surgery. I almost didn't have the surgery due to an
exposure of mrsa so I had to be tested if it was positive I wouldn't be able to
have the surgery. It was negative so the surgery was on. Mark gave me a really
nice blessing. In it he asked that the Dr. would use her knowledge and
skills but that she would also be guided by the spirit throughout the surgery
as to what things need to be attended to (or something like that). We felt good
about the blessing and going into surgery. The day of surgery was an
interesting one. I went in and awhile later the Dr. came out to talk to Mark.
She told him that the surgery went fine but there were
complications when she went to pull out the uterus she also
found a small mass that fell into the now available space. At that point
after looking a little further and finding the mass was attached to the
fallopian tube and maybe the colon wall she decided to call in a General
surgeon to look at it. They went out and talked with Mark then they went back
in. The General surgeon went in laparascopically where the other Dr. went
in vaginally. He checked everything and couldn't see anything that
might have been attached to the colon wall just the fat on it which was a good
thing because he was able to cauterize the fat and not the colon wall. When I
got back from surgery I asked Mark how the surgery went. He told me the surgery
went fine but there were complications, I had cancer...I really didn't know
what to think. I think I was in shock a little, then I said I'm going to lose
all my hair... I told Mark we needed a picture before I lost it. The OB came in
a little later and we talked and she explained more to me. Basically I have
fallopian tube cancer. In most cases the fallopian tube cells spread to the
ovaries causing ovarian cancer. Fallopian tube cancer is very rare only 1500 in
the US (possibly worldwide) each year. The OB said they treat it like ovarian
cancer. I will more than likely have another surgery where they will take out
my one ovary I still have, a few pelvic lymph nodes (to see if it spread to
them) and my omentum. An omentum is a layer of fat in the pelvic/colon area.
The OB says everyone has one but doesn't serve much purpose, mainly protection
and support of those internal organs. The reason you want to take it out
is because cancer is attracted to fat. So at this point we would wait for the
pathology report to send with a referral to an OB oncologist. That appt. is
scheduled in 8 weeks because he wants me to fully recover from the
hysterectomy.
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