Little Eblings Academy - Surgery Today at 4:30PM

Oct. 14, 2009

Surgery Today at 4:30PM

Well, today is the big day. I have surgery today.

Let me go back a bit...
I went to see my urologist last week to get the results of my lab work and my CT scan. No cancer. Praise God! One large kidney stone in one kidney, along with another smaller one; several tiny stones in the other kidney. My urologist and I spent a lot of time talking about my options - none of which sounded great. We decided on extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy. I will be sedated, then the urologist will use shock waves to try to break up the larger kidney stone. If he can break up the larger one, he may try to break up the smaller one. Complications from lithotripsy are rare - mild pain when the smaller fragments of the stone pass, and muscle and back pain from the shocks. Sometimes lithotripsy doesn't work in breaking up the stones and a more invasive surgery is required. I am praying and believing that the lithrotripsy will work and that both stones will be gone when I wake up from sedation.

While I am sedated, I will also have a cystoscopy - the urologist will use a scope to look inside my bladder to make sure that I don't have any cysts or cancer. He feels fairly certain that I don't have anything wrong, except the kidney stones.

I am terribly afraid of being sedated. I don't like that someone else is in control of my breathing. It is the anesthesiologist's job to make me breathe. He has no ties to me, and sees me only as another hour long surgery in his day. (If Adrian screws up his job, someone goes without cable or satellite... If the anesthesiologist screws up his job, someone can die.)

My girls were listening to KTIS in their bedroom this morning and the dj quoted his favorite verse. Isaiah 41:13 For I, the LORD your God, will hold your right hand, Saying to you, 'Fear not, I will help you.' I am going to stand on that verse today!! I will not be afraid.

I am enjoying a quick Coke before my time runs out - no food after midnight last night, clear fluids until 10:30 this morning, then nothing until after my surgery. Adrian offered to get me anything I wanted to eat last night at 11:30. (He even said he'd go to McDonald's for a grilled McChicken sandwich!!) I asked him to make me a bowl of chocolate ice cream. It isn't bad, really, to skip a couple of meals when you are busy....but it feels like you are famished when you are required to skip meals. So annoying!

Please say a prayer for peace for me today. Thank you all so much!!

In Him, Beckie

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