TUESDAY EARLY MORNING

THE ONCOLOGY TOWER - Never thought I would be visitng my husband there but here I am and here he is post-op!

I am super tired tonight! I decided to come home after getting Gary settled in room 5019. What a room and what a view! Yes, I am being sarcastic. He does however have a private room so I am not complaining.

After 11 grueling hours (for everyone) Gary appeared and everything went extremely well. They cleaned him out and sent all of the tissue to pathology and we have 1 week to wait for results. Without results, the doctors think everything looks good. They are 97% positive that the cancer was inside of a diverticulum - which is what we were hoping for. He will be in the hospital for 6-8 days and he will not be able to eat for the first 4 days. If everyone could hold off on planning to visit him until Wednesday I think he would appreciate it. You know how vain he is - he doesn't want to be "puffy" when you all see him! He needs some beauty rest and a gel eye pack! :)

While Gary was in recovery we went to Corner Bakery for dinner tonight and had a relaxing time. The posters that all the kids made for Gary are AWESOME and he LOVES them! Jen, Jenn, Michele and I hung all of them before the girls left tonight.

So, Gary is in a lot of pain and he is on a morphine drip. He was already trying to tough the pain out BUT I TOOK CARE OF THAT ONE! Up the man's morphine NOW! He is such a pain in the rear sometimes but you gotta love him.
Speaking of love.............

We feel soooooo loved! We have not gone through this alone and that is so evident! My heavens - we had so many family members and friends at the hospital today. Todd and the Elders came at 6 AM this morning and prayed over Gary and prayed for me. It was so uplifting and many hospital staff commented on how awesome our support group was! We have one amazing church body!

Our family, friends and church family has continually poured out love. We could never tell you all how much everything you have done and contunue to do for us means!

A shout out to my girlfriends - I love you and could not and would not want to go through this without you! You are stuck with me! Claudia, Stacy, Gay, Angela, Ren, Monica, Jenn, Jen, Michele, Todd, John, Rob, Kim, Mom, Mom & Dad, Dave and anyone else I missed who came to the hospital today - thanks so much! The Muck's ROCK!!! My kids love you and we love your family! Matt - thanks for having Hobie over for a playdate with Stella and Murphy! STACY - love you and love you Kenny! Thanks for taking the boys for a sleepover tonight! I am sure they miss me, huh? Probably not as much as they love playing the Wii!! :)

I need to take a shower and get some sleep.
Love to all and talk to you in the morning!


Lisa