[Magdalen] Prayer request - surgery tomorrow

[Ginga Wilder]

Glad you're up and communicating, Eleanor.  Keep us updated when you can.

Blessings,
Ginga

On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Eleanor Braun <eleanor.braun at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It went well. I'll talk with the surgical fellow later this morning for
> details.
>
> Eleanor
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Oct 18, 2014, at 8:53 AM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone had an update on Eleanor's surgery?  My prayers continue.
> >
> > Ginga
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Eleanor Braun <eleanor.braun at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> 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
> >>
>