[Magdalen] Prayer request - surgery tomorrow

[Lee Lemmon]

many prayers and gentle hugs and blessings


On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <ichthys89 at comcast.net>
wrote:

> Just now reading this Eleanor... my thoughts and prayers go with  you
> tomorrow and into the days ahead.
> peace
> Lynn
>
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> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Eleanor Braun" <eleanor.braun at gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 6:39 AM
> To: "Magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Subject: [Magdalen] Prayer request - surgery tomorrow
>
>
>  The last six weeks have been quite an adventure.
>>
>> On Labor Day, some friends from Northern Virginia joined our household and
>> our friends the Gibsons on a wonderful voyage to see where seals gather
>> and
>> prosper before they go out to the Atlantic to become lunch for the great
>> whites.
>>
>> The next day, after our friends had left and I had run some errands, I
>> started feeling bad, including nausea and abdominal pain.  By 8pm I was in
>> the emergency room of Cape Cod Hospital, and the next day I had an
>> emergency appendectomy.  (And yes there is such thing as an elective
>> appendectomy -- Pam had one.)
>>
>> The appendectomy went fine.  The appendix had not ruptured, but it was
>> "quite nasty," according to the surgeon.
>>
>> Among the nastiness he found were nodules he called "carcinomatosis,"
>> representing either ovarian or peritoneal cancer.
>>
>> There have been CT scans and other tests, and I am now scheduled for
>> surgery on Friday October 17.  I will be at Brigham & Women's Hospital in
>> Boston, which is part of the medical complex with Dana Farber Cancer
>> Institute, and which is a leading teaching hospital of Harvard Medical
>> School.  My surgeon is one of the very top docs in gynecological cancers.
>> So I go in with a lot of confidence.
>>
>> After recovery from surgery I will be going to Boston periodically for
>> chemotherapy, and hope to have a successful outcome of all of that.  It
>> will be rough for the next few months, but I have great support here.
>>
>> One of the best things is that my sister Pam is here, on a previously
>> planned trip.  She went with me for the consult with the surgeon, and to
>> my
>> local oncologist.  She has very generously offered to stay with me through
>> the surgery on Friday, so she will get the direct report from the surgeon
>> while I'm still groggy.
>>
>> I would be most grateful for your prayers.
>>
>> Eleanor
>>
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