[Magdalen] Prayer Request

[Grace Cangialosi]

My experience was much like Susan's, Renee, and I wish the same for you.  I
went to work in the morning at the hospital until 11:30, and then went
downstairs and checked in for the surgery which was at 1:30. My
sister-in-law picked me up at 4:30, and I was at my daughter's having a
spaghetti dinner with them by 6:00!  Only when I got ready for bed did I
look at the discharge instructions which said to begin with clear liquids
and "advance as tolerated."  I decided I had tolerated the spaghetti dinner
pretty well! The doctor said I should stay out until he saw me the
following Tuesday, but I went back to work on Monday and just didn't tell
him.

On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Susan Hagen <susanvhagen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Praying you will have an experience like mine.  Went in Thursday morning,
> good drugs.  Friends gently led me home in the afternoon.  I was high on
> said drugs, pottered around cutting and arranging flowers (it was spring),
> ate supper and fell sound asleep.  Wandered over to visit the neighbors
> Friday.  Loafed around that weekend and went back to work Monday.  Later
> told the surgeon I couldn't understand how he could go in and suck out an
> internal organ and cause so little discomfort.  He grinned and said it was
> magic.  It is the least distressing surgical experience I have ever had.
>
> I had asked ahead of time how long I would be off work.  The doc said they
> usually told people a week but found most people defied them so now said to
> do as they pleased.
>
> Wishing you all good outcomes.
>
> Susan
>
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 10:20 AM, flyingfish224--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > Ok, 8 days and counting.
> >
> > Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (meaning she's yanking my gall bladder out
> > through a little hole in my belly) on Monday May 4.
> >
> > I will be glad to be rid of the killer heartburn, but nonetheless am
> > freaked out.  The only real surgeries I have had were a tonsillectomy in
> > 1959 and a C-section in 1985.
> >
> > In the realm of life, this is little.  But big to me.
> >
> > Prayers and good juju requested.
> >
> > Renee
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Before enlightenment pay bills, do laundry.  After enlightenment pay bills,
> do laundry.
>



-- 
Grace Cangialosi
Ruckersville, VA

Keep Calm and Carry OM.