I have to admit I am glad September is over! It has been a long, hard month for so many reasons. We've had some good times too though. My mom had a mastectomy on September 15th. Tim took off and kept the boys. Kristi helped him, while TuTu stayed at the hospital with us. Dr. Bailey came and prayed with us which was wonderful. Dr. Austin was her anesthesiologist, and he was just as funny as when he did my epidural. Dr. Buice was wonderful, and the surgery lasted only a few hours. I stayed at the hospital that night, and the nurses were all really nice. Mom went home the next day.
The past two weeks have been hard waiting on all of the pathology results. The good news is that the margins and lymph nodes are clear. The bad news is that the tumor was very large, much larger than all of the images showed. The next step is chemo and radiation which Mom is not happy about. It is what it is though.
To add to all of this, there was a school shooting at an elementary school in Anderson where one little boy was killed, and another child and a teacher were injured. I know some people who teach there. That is my worst nightmare as a parent and a teacher. It has been a very sad weekend and a month full of lots of prayers.
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