We can’t keep doing this
I just want to let everyone know that Mike did have Gamma knife surgery again this morning and everything went well, as expected but, we can’t keep doing this…at least not every 3 months! We had to be at Mayo early afternoon yesterday to meet with the radiologist to go over things (in case we forgot😉) and we had to be at the hospital at 5:30 am to check in. We were shocked by the extremely long line of people checking in for surgery, because last time we didn’t have to be there until 7am. And there was only a very small line. After checking in they took us right to a room and started an IV and then gave Mike some Ativan to take the edge off of the local anesthesia they would be using before screwing his helmet into the front and back of his skull.🫤 They sent me on my way to go check out of our hotel room. I got a text from Mayo before I was even out of the parking lot saying that he was in the O.R. and doing great, so I figured that he would be their first patient of the morning so I hustled back to the hospital to wait. I was wrong, he was their second GKS of the day and. I finally got a message about 9:20 that they were starting the procedure and it would take about 82 minutes…!?! (So precise)… A little after 11am I got a message that he was done and did great. We got to leave the hospital around noon and are home in Charles City. I wish I could say he is resting but he only laid down a few minutes with ice on his forehead. Thank God he had no bleeding this time but, he does say his head hurts more this time.
Jared and Kelly surprised Mike and came home from Chicago to visit us and Jack is done with college now so he is home too. We ate dinner and played family pickle ball while Mike watched and also took some grandkids for gator rides. Mike is feeling good and plans to go on a college visit to Upper Iowa with Jackson tomorrow.
Mike loves the book of James in the Bible and basically the whole thing is amazing but especially James 1:2-4 Count, it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. We have had so many people praying for us, some people we have never even met, but they’ve sent kind, messages and words of encouragement and prayers, which is so uplifting! We can’t thank you enough! Nobody want to be on a cancer journey, but I do think it teaches us all something if we let it. We can be bitter or we can search for answers to what it is trying to teach us. We have met some incredible life long friends that we never would have met if we weren’t on this road together, so for that we are thankful!
In His love and ours,
Paula
