What a day that Shelley had, she started out at 8am arriving at the hospital for her surgery. After getting checked in and the pre-op was waiting for her she was taken straight to pre-op to get ready for the operation. A little before 9:00am Dr. Heck put the dye into her breast. The dye was to tell Dr. Heck if the cancer had spread to her lymph nodes, he would not know until he opened up Shelley. After that Dr. Heck rushed off to warm up with another surgery.
Around 11:15am Shelley was taken back to operating room for the surgery. Around 1:50pm Dr. Heck completed his part of the surgery. He told us that Shelley is doing good and that the dye that he injected earlier showed that the lymph nodes were negative. He further advised that he removed the two lymph nodes so that they can be biopsied to see for sure if the cancer has not spread to the lymph nodes. Dr. Heck stated that there is a small chance that the cancer still could of spread with the negative reading from the dye, but he was happy with the out come of the surgery. I then asked him if he knew what stage she was. He stated that he would not know until he gets the report from the biopsy, but he did say that she is probably a stage 1. He then left and went back into the operating room to observe the last of the reconstruction that Dr. Johnson was doing.
Around 3:15 pm Dr. Johnson completed the reconstruction of Shelley. He told us that everything went as scheduled and that he was pleased with the out come. Shelley was then in recovery until 6:00 pm and She finally got to her room around 6:45.
Shelley is doing good resting and in a little bit of pain, with the help of her pain medicine.
We will not know what kind of treatment that she will have until the bio report comes back. They said that the report would be done in 4 to 5 business days. A little more waiting.
I can’t think everyone enough for their prayers, telephone calls, texts, emails, stopping by the house, and coming by the hospital. It has been a trying time for Shelley and I believe with all my heart that GOD touched her. I also know that Shelley wants think everybody for the Prayers and all the thought fullness that has been shown during this time. I will still ask that you keep Shelley in your prayers while she begins the healing process and that the bio report shows the same as the dye did.
I will try to update this as new information comes along.
God bless everyone
Darryl
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Thank you God - our God does perform miracles!! We will continue to each of in our prayers. Thank you Darryl for keeping us up-to-date. God's Blessings to your family, With Love to all of you, Jo
ReplyDeleteThank you Darryl for letting us know. This is so Awesome. After reading your post, a song immediately popped in my head. I will spare you all from my terrible singing voice, luckily it's just in my head. The song is "Our God is an Awesome God". Shelley and your whole family are getting many prayers from all of use here and many other people that don't even know you personally. I know you are on my church's prayer list and many other church's lists also.
ReplyDeletePower of Prayer!!!!! I will keep her in my prayers I believe we all lifted Shelley up in our prayers that like you said she was touched by God....
ReplyDeleteThis is all FANTASTIC news! I'm hoping and praying that the pathology report comes back confirming what the doctor feels. Shelley's a tough little bird - she's going to be an inspiration to women everywhere. We'll keep the prayers coming.
ReplyDeleteFirst step on the road to recovery....CHECK!!