My Journey

 I am nine days postop and I’m going to try to journal what my journey has been thus far. Wednesday, June 8. Surgery day! Well let’s back up to Tuesday, I was frantically trying to clean everything and make sure I had all the things done. Plus, I had to take Preston back to the doctor because he had his toenail removed the day before because of infection. So, when the nurse called to confirm my appointment I wrote down 9:30 arrival 11:30 surgery on a piece of paper in my car and put it in the middle console and went back into the store with Chloe. Originally, my surgery was scheduled for 11:30 arrival and 1:30 surgery. I never looked at that paper again and had it in my head that surgery was still at 1:30 with 11:30 arrival.  The night before a dear friend, Heather, organized a nice prayer over me before we left Tuesday evening and I truly felt at peace. So, backing up again it was even a struggle for me to reach out to some of my past prayer warriors to help me get through this. I continued to pray to God and he put  a few people on my heart to reach out to to ask for prayer during this time and I’m so glad I listened to his nudging! So, a small group of family and friends showed up and everyone said a blessing over me.  I did not feel comfortable telling all of my Facebook friends of my diagnosis so I created a page called faithful prayer warriors of people who I felt comfortable telling and knowing they would pray for me. Danielle also created a meal train which I felt strange about at first, too.  I just don’t understand why I struggle with asking for help. However, the meal train has been a huge blessing. So, back to surgery day we get up, get ready, pray with the kids and head out around 9:15. At 10 o’clock the hospital called and asked if I’m coming in for my surgery at 11:30. I freaked out explaining I thought I was supposed to be there at 11:30 and  basically Jeff just drove a fast is he good. We made it by 11 and surgery started around 12:30 so it’ll all work out. I guess I was just so scattered the day before and I never even pulled out that piece of paper to double check the times  and in my defense the nurse who called me to confirm, her dogs were barking and she was quite scattered as well. 🙃