BACK HOME

Just a brief update to let you all know that surgery was successful, and I am now back home, learning to be patient and accept help as I recover, and pondering many things. 

 

One of the things I've been pondering is the miracle of how this surgery even came to be. That deserves a post all of its own.

In brief though, I firmly believe the Lord used the small bowel obstruction that landed me in the ER just to introduce me to the wonderful thoracic surgeon who repaired the hiatal hernia I had been told was too risky to repair and that it was a surgery I would not be a candidate for.

I have already posted the details of how an X-ray taken as I was being prepped for pre-op revealed that the obstruction was gone (here in this post if you want to read it), and the surgery was cancelled. 

The thoracic surgeon who was going to collaborate in the surgery recommended that I go home, gain some strength, and reschedule the hernia repair for a later date--as opposed to him doing it then. 

His plan was to do minimally invasive robotic surgery--unless he went in and found there was a lot of scar tissue from a previous laparoscopic surgery I had had, which is what had been thought to be the cause of the bowel obstruction that disappeared. And plan A is what it turned out to be as there was no scar tissue to be found either.

When I ponder how the Lord orchestrated the details of a surgery that had never even been on the radar before my visit to the ER for something totally unrelated, my awe is too great for words.