SURGERY DAY

Hi everyone. I am home for a while and wanted to update everyone.
Thank you to every single person who took the time to come to Hoag to give blood for Gary. We are so appreciative!!!
There are so many people who just want to help us in some way and we are so incredibly thankful.

Anytime in your life when you have had it with the human race in general and you think that there are very few great and excellent people left in this world who aren't idiots and who don't care I want you to come to this site and read about all the wonderful things people have stepped up to the plate to do for our family. It is simply overwhelming to know how many people have stuck by us throughout this ordeal. How blessed we are!

So, Gary is in loads and loads of abdominal pain. He has a raging infection in his abdominal cavity and therefore the surgeons can't wait any longer to operate.

Tonight, at an unknown time as of now, they will operate and will do the following:
1. Fix the hole in the neobladder.
2. Fix the hole in the colon (large intestine)
3. Fix whatever is going on with the small bowel (small intestine) blockage.

This will be a 4-6 hour surgery. Please pray that everything goes well with what the surgeons are trying to accomplish. Dr. Le and Dr. Phan are wonderful doctors and we trust them.

The whole purpose in doing this surgery is so that Gary can get back to fighting the cancer with the chemo treatments.
The next phase will be to operate on his liver.

I am getting the kids situated so that my Dad and I can stay the night with Gary. Praise God for all of our friends!
I hope to get much needed sleep while Gary is in surgery tonight.

I will keep updating the blog as I get info during surgery. Hoag has Hi-Fi downstairs and I can run down every so often to update.

Please keep your prayers coming. While you are at it read Matthew 17: 11-the end. There is a story about a man who brings his son to the disciples who end up not being able to heal the son. The dad then goes to Jesus and tells Him that the disciples could not heal his son. Jesus then begins to speak about faith. It is not the quantity of faith we possess but the quality of faith we have. HAVE FAITH. REALLY HAVE IT. OWN IT and pray for God to give it to you!!!

All our Love,
L&G