| | Hey everyone, thank you so much for your thoughts and prayers over the past week - I know they were heard and answered, please keep them coming. I was released on Saturday, so I am home now, but getting back into the swing of things is going to take some time. My head is still very sore (imagine that). It was worse than the second surgery which was worse than the first. Each time we re-open through the scar tissue it hurts more. Not only is there that, but they took some skin/fat from my side and used it inside to help seal up the hole, so I got a bit of a tummy tuck as mom calls it. That, too, is sore. My committee chair professor commented that I look like a softball with the 34 staples in the same backwards question mark shape. I feel like one; it feels like my head got wacked with a baseball bat enough times to be a softball. Of course my arms are sore, too, from all the IV's blood draws, and various other needles and each of those pokes in the veins being pushed on repeatedly by a boatload of blood pressure readings. The surgery itself went well, the doctors said the post-op MRI was clean, and we were a bit worried about some fields of vision being lost but it seems like they have all come back alright. In a few weeks (just before halloween, darn) the staples and stitches will come out, and then once the surgeon says it's alright, the neuro-oncologist has cleared me to go back on Temodar, my favorite chemotherapy. So I'll be back on that while trying to finish classes, research, and hopefully sneak some teaching in there. With that in mind I will need much more of God's help, so please keep the prayers coming.
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