8 days to surgery! Prayer Request!!

Jul 21, 2010

I read a thread on one of my message boards about something that sometimes happens when you have surgery... A person went in to have Gastric Bypass Surgery, and at the beginning of the surgery, the surgeon took a peek around in her abdomen, just to get a feel for the working area. The surgeon found a tumor on her pancreas. He did her Gastric Bypass and finished by dissecting and removing the tumor. It was a cancerous tumor, but it was only stage 1. Now, I don't know if you are familiar with cancer or with pancreatic cancer specifically, but it is a cancer that is VERY hard to find in the early stages. Virtually NO ONE finds a pancreatic tumor when it is stage 1, as a matter of fact, they consider you pretty lucky if your pancreatic tumor is stage 3 when they find it. I know of a few people who have gotten pancreatic cancer and other than this person, I don't know any who lived longer than 4 months after their diagnosis. The point is- Sometimes there are UNSEEN things going on.

Having this surgery gives my surgeon a unique opportunity to take stock of what's going on under the surface, what unseen things might be lurking without me knowing. Please pray for her to have a keen eye for the unseen while she is doing my surgery! That God would guide her hand to anything that could become a problem later!

This is especially true of my pancreas, spleen, and gall bladder. All of these organs will be stressed by this surgical process. Frequently, Gastric Bypass patients end up needing to have additional surgery to remove their gall bladders and/or spleens. Another thing she will surely be looking for is hernia, which is common in large people like myself.

Verse I'm meditating on today:
2 Corinthians 4: 16-18
Therefore, we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

Huggles!!
~Sarah~

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