[Magdalen] prayers please for my D-I-L Christina

[Ginga Wilder]

Update: Christina's first surgery was finished an hour or so ago.  The
second surgery is anticipated to be finished by 3 PM EDT.  All is going
well.

Thank you for your prayers.

Ginga

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 5:24 PM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks again for all prayers and good wishes.  We are in Charlotte at
> present keeping a granddaughter.  Both of our boys and their families live
> in Charlotte.  We will have dinner with Christina, Robert, and Rory
> tomorrow.  I hope she is calm and collected.  She is such a fine young
> woman.  Her mom lives in Charlotte, and Robert is taking time a week or so
> off work to be with her.  So, if needed, John and I will come back in a few
> weeks to help out.
>
> Ginga Wilder
>
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 3:55 PM, Susan Hagen <susanvhagen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm sorry she has to face this.  I hope the procedure goes well and
>> that it gives her some piece of mind.
>> Susan
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 5:52 PM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Christina is our youngest's wife.  She is 34.  When her grandmother had
>> > breast cancer in recent years, Christina, her mother, and both of her
>> aunts
>> > tested positive for the BRCA gene.  In the meantime, both of her aunts
>> have
>> > had cancer, one had breast ca., the other had ovarian.  Two weeks ago,
>> > Grandmother was diagnosed with colon cancer.  The Triumvirate.  This
>> coming
>> > Friday, July 28th, Christina will under go bilateral mastectomy with
>> DIEP
>> > flap reconstruction, which uses her own tissue.  This will be a ten hour
>> > operation...or two surgeries under one anesthesia.
>> >
>> > That medical science has moved to this point is amazing. Christina's
>> choice
>> > to have this surgery sooner rather than later makes good sense.  Our son
>> > Robert, Christina's family, and Robert's family - all support her
>> > completely.  R&C have an incredibly bright 4 y.o. daughter, Rory, who is
>> > well prepared that her mom will be puny for a while.
>> >
>> > So, I bid your prayers that all will go well and as expected with this
>> > surgery.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Ginga Wilder
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among
>> you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the
>> land of Egypt.
>> Leviticus 19:34
>>
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