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Guys, if you can, please say a lil prayer

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#1

My friend Kim is having laproscopic surgery today. She has a (non-cancerous) cyst the size of a baseball on her ovary. The doctor warned her that he may have to take everything (hysterectomy)… She’s really afraid of that happening.

I’m taking quite a bit of heat from her family because I’m scheduled to work this morning, and can’t get off (there IS simply NOBODY else to take the shift, and we really NEED the money anyway). Kim goes in at 7:30, surgery is 10ish, and I’m stuck there until 2… This ain’t gonna be a very fun day.

#2
Mik said:
My friend Kim is having laproscopic surgery today. She has a (non-cancerous) cyst the size of a baseball on her ovary. The doctor warned her that he may have to take everything (hysterectomy)... She's really afraid of that happening.

I’m taking quite a bit of heat from her family because I’m scheduled to work this morning, and can’t get off (there IS simply NOBODY else to take the shift, and we really NEED the money anyway). Kim goes in at 7:30, surgery is 10ish, and I’m stuck there until 2… This ain’t gonna be a very fun day.


Mik, I say to you what I said to Steve. I hesitate to offer a prayer on your friend’s behalf - she has enough trouble as it is!

That said, I will take the risk.

If it’s any help, one of our daughters had a similar op when she was a teenager. She lost the ovary, but everything else was OK. She’s now about a third of the way through her first pregnancy.

#3

Thoughts and prayers, Mik, thoughts and prayers.

Times like this, and I’m not a religious person, BTW, I think about Psalm 121. My wife made a little tiny copy of it for me to go on my first detachment over the water, and never told me about it until I found it in the liner of my helmet years later, on changing it for a new one without holes in.

It’s also in our little mazuzah, of course, but in Japanese, rather than Hebrew.

tac family

#4

She’s home, they took 2 cysts and some other stuff, but left all the parts she was worried about. I put her to bed with some Vicodin. At the moment she’s complaining she’s HUNGRY, which I think is a good sign.

#5

Good news, Mik! Feed the lady!

#6

“Glad to hear she made it through well”, the hunger is a good sign, so is bladder and bowel movements, if the pain last more than a month be carefull of pill addiction, it sneaks in with out the patient even knowing!!

                                                                                            Best Wishes for a speedy recovery!!


                                                                                                                           Smokebox
#7

Be careful of the words you use, Rob. It is not addiction that happens, but physical dependence. Addiction is loss of control.

#8

I’m glad to hear that the surgery was successful, and best wishes for a speedy recovery!