Hope and Faith. I've always had hope. Maybe it's been far off hope. My hope has been in a future for my children. Praying and hoping in the future of our nation despite destruction and despair, because I know the foundations of Truth America is built upon. A Hope in the future of our Creation's purpose.
Last week I was given a more tangible closer hope for the immediate future. A doctor in St. Louis and his team are going to do excision surgery to literally cut out the endometriosis from my abdomen and all affected organs. Radical? Yes. Necissary? Yes. After years of surgeries that use laser to vaporize visible disease, but cannot treat disease on or behind organs, and multiple hormone treatments to suppress a disease that is not supressible and dealing with side effects from the hormone treatments that never fully go away even after treatment stops, I have HOPE. I have hope of chasing after my kids on the playground again. I have hope of walking around the zoo ALL DAY again without debilitating pain. I have hope of consistently going to church. I have hope of not canceling last minute on a social engagement because I cannot stand long enough to fix my hair or put on make-up.
The thing about Hope is that we have to have Faith. We have to believe in the unseen. It took me a year in believing there were others out there who could do something different from what could be done and that the doctors and opinions here I had sought and received were not the end.
My appointments, my doctors and all we met were covered in prayer. Evidence of His Divine intervention was all around. And now as I build up to the surgery date, May 28 at 7:30 am, I ask for you to follow and stand to see His Providence in this work He is doing. This will be a journey of Eucharisteo. Thanksgiving and gratitude on how a story is written. Are there problems in stories? Yes. But there are always victories.
So, join our journey as we see how the Lord continues to intervene for our family to prepare for this extensive surgery.
Crystal
Here is my P.S. If you'd like more info about the surgery, endometriosis, feel free to read a little more.
Facts about my particular surgery:
Surgeons have blocked out a whole day
Female organs and bowels are involved, diseased parts scheduled to be removed, bowels resectioned, if needed suspected kinking, nodules
other organs and areas being checked: bladder for interstital cystits, appendix, uterus (being removed no matter what) checked for adenomyosis
Here is a link comparing the two types of surgeries: Again, this time I get to finally have excision. Endo Surgery.
And one more helpful link. I have had many women tell me to just have a hysterectomy. While this may have personally helped them, it does not cure endometriosis and in severe cases does not bring lasting, long-term relief. There is no cure for endo. There are many theories on how it is caused. Educate yourselves, your daughters. Endo Myths
Even after this, I will live with symptoms. But maybe with this, pain meds will be few and far between. I will be able to participate in the Westport St. Patrick's Day Race, again. And I will be able to function as a normal person more times than not.
