Surgery time is set

 I got the call this morning. I will be checked in for surgery tomorrow at 9:30 am. I like the sound of that. 

Early enough to have the surgery team awake,  not so early that I can't enjoy my morning routine. My surgery can take anywhere from 2 hours to 7 hours, so you probably won't hear anything until around 5:00 pm.  Gene will be with me throughout and will be posting my progress. 

I am feeling good, strong, healthy and hopeful. 

Today has been filled with positive thoughts and wishes from many of you. I cannot express how grateful I feel to have such thoughtful family and friends. 

Whether you checked in from California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Indiana, South Carolina, Germany or Moscow, I feel your love and appreciate how precisely you have managed to navigate the time differences to ensure your blessings have arrived on time.  I hear each of you with my heart and I am so thankful to have you in my life. 

Many of you have put me into your prayers, I'm am not the praying type, but I do understand the power of prayer.  I hope you will pray for me to have clarity moving forward and to help me welcome whatever comes with calmness and confidence. 

My daughter reminded me today, that I have already lived through the pain of ovarian torsion. No pain going forward will be as bad as that.  

And my friend reminded me, that women who have emergency (vertical incision) C-sections, are up and going home in 2 days. And, they have a newborn to manage while recovering from major surgery. 

Thank you for reminding me that tomorrow may be difficult, but far from impossible. I am strong and  healthy and couldn't be going into surgery more prepared.  

Me and my silk pajamas are ready to move forward. 

As my surgeon said, "Let's get this "baby" out!"


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