Post Surgery Update #2

so... i had a really hard time following all the "rules" last time, so i am just going to write this one the way i feel comfortable!

Went to the girl dr./surgeon on Tuesday and everything is healing perfectly... she said i can start increasing activity, lifting heavier things, driving (yeah!  this was good news... i was becoming quite a homebody), basically doing things to get back to normal... she said she had also been doing a lot of thinking about our case and came up with what she thought was our best option... she did preface it though by talking about those commercials for medication that is supposed to clear up nail fungus, but that may have a side effect of causing blindness, etc... you know the kind... but the possible solution she was talking about is the Lupron shots... they put you into early menopause, which is where the bad side effects come in, hot flashes, moodiness (sorry dusty), possible loss of hair, etc... and they are quite expensive... she said that if we decided to try these then we would do them for 3 months and see how i am handling it and then we would do it for 3 more months if everything is going well... after this 6 months she said we will do what is called an HSG test to see if the fibroids have shrunk (that would be the whole reason we would be doing the injections)... she did give me hope in that she said we only need to create a tiny cavern for a baby to take hold and then the baby can handle the rest!  that was great news... however, she did let me know that she didn't want to give me any false hope, and that we were still at high risk, and this may not work... but i know God is bigger than the masses and that His will will be done!  

so we left the dr. with a plan... or at least hoping for a plan... the dr. said if we chose to do the injections then we would start them at my next follow-up in 4 weeks... she said she would go ahead and put them through on the insurance to see if my insurance covers them... so yesterday morning i was sitting here praying that God would just give us peace of mind and let us know if this was the right course of action to take, when the phone rang and it was the insurance company saying that as long as i use their pharmacy they will cover the shots!!! this was huge news, and a gift of answered prayer!  so that is the road we have ahead of us... early menopause, here i come!  if you see me and i start to look a little red around the edges, please give me a piece of paper to make a fan... i hear i need to have one of those with me at all times!

we are hopeful... we are peaceful... and we are excited to see what is going to happen in the next several months... thanks so much for everyones encouragement and prayers during this time in our lives... i cannot express how much it has meant to us... Dan was talking last week about the importance of a church home... i can tell you i have seen that to be so real the last several weeks... everyone has taken such care of dusty and i and the meals were WONDERFUL!... and no repeats!  we also had a visit from my family last week... my mom came down from Canada and got me up and out and about... it was sore for awhile, but i can definitely tell a difference in the last week... it was good to get up and walking around... i am starting to feel like my old self!

i haven't made it back to the hematologist yet, but that will be the next step, to make sure that all the blood counts stayed up after the surgery and recovery... 

thanks again friends!