Thursday, July 26, 2007
Gram's Surgery
It's official - gram is going to have her hysterectomy. We have a tentative date of August 16. So from now until then I have to run her all over creation to get tests done and get releases from her different drs.
They are going to do the traditional surgery which is cutting her right down the middle (or wherever they cut you) versus how my mom had it done which was through her belly button. The dr's reasoning for that was that he wanted to be able to see if there was something going on that maybe they had missed. He couldn't give me an answer as to why this is happeneing to her. He said that they would have to examine the uterus once it's out and run tests on it. He also said they may never know what caused the bleeding. That's reassuring let me tell you. He also said that most times when you have bleeding at this age it's from cancer but they did at least two biopsies and said that they were both benign. Their tests could be wrong and that really scares me.
I am waiting to hear from her heart dr and she has to hear from her regular dr so we can set up two more appointments. We have already got a couple set. Her surgery is scheduled for very early in the morning so we have to be at the hospital at 6 am. Thankfully the surgery fell on the week my mom has vacation so that she can be with my kids. I know my gram is scared and so am I. I tried to lighten her mood about the whole thing and tell her that she was ruining our plans for our yard sale for next month. I did get her to laugh if only for a few minutes.
I'll keep you all posted about things. Thanx for the prayers. :)Labels: family, personal
