Quick Update: Curve Ball

Just when you think you have it all figured out.  


We got a curve ball thrown at us today. Surgery, originally scheduled for this Thursday morning is being moved to Tuesday of next week. We've prayed for God to align the doctors, the timing and for guidance on key decisions that need to be made, so clearly he wants this date for us!


On Monday the 18th, Julie will go to the hospital for a pre-op procedure where they will put the radioactive dye into her blood stream.  This procedure allows the surgeon to test the sentinel lymph nodes during surgery on Tuesday.


Then, on Tuesday the 19th, Julie will check into the hospital at 6:00am.  Surgery is scheduled to begin at 7:00am, and will take anywhere from 3-5 hours, depending on what they find out about the lymph nodes (cancer or no cancer) and if they need to remove more of them.  She is scheduled to then get checked into Penrose St. Francis North hospital and will stay overnight.  We hope to have her released by mid-day on Wednesday (if all goes well!).


This requires that we change some already scheduled follow up meetings with the oncologist (originally scheduled for the 20th), and maybe a few others. While have been preparing ourselves for surgery this week, it does give us a bit more time to pray and prepare emotionally. 


I will update more later