The Pathology Report

Yesterday Aaron and I drove to London for the pathology report from my surgery.  I wasn't feeling the greatest, my incision has been hurting since I developed a cold.  Every time I coughed or blew my nose I felt like something was ripping inside of me.  In between my catnaps in the car Aaron and I talked about the upcoming appointment and praying that it would be the last.  My "cancer" journey has been short but yet long enough for me.  

We met with the surgeon, Dr. Lanvin and shared the good news that there were no cancerous cells detected!!!!  You can't believe the relief I felt.  Even though he told me after the surgery that everything would be okay I really needed to know the pathology report looked good.  Dr. Lanvin expressed again how he has never seen anything like this before and that in his experience the CA 125 level was an almost definite that it would be cancer.  Aaron and I have had many talks about this and we truly believe that this has been a miracle and that this miracle has come about because of prayer and all the well wishes from family, friends and even people we do not know.  I believe it has been the accumulation of all these prayers that have helped to alter the outcome of this journey for me and to say I'm thankful can't even begin to describe how I feel.

From British Columbia, where LeeAnn's mom's prayer group was praying for me to my aunt in Newfoundland, from Aaron's boss putting a prayer note in the Wailing Wall in Israel for me to my parents friend, Mimi who is Hindu who was doing chants for me.  From all my friends and church family here in Drayton to all our friends and family across North America, so many prayers and well wishes.

I still have a somewhat lengthy recovery ahead of me, Dr. Lanvin reminding me to do NOTHING for the next four to six weeks.  But, it still feels like a small price to pay.  When Aaron and I left the Cancer Center in London yesterday we both expressed our hope that we would never have to come back.  I looked around the waiting room as I was leaving and I sent a blessing to all the people sitting there, hoping that they would receive news like mine and if that wasn't their path that they would have the support and love to help them on their journey.  I have had the smallest taste of what the journey may entail and I do not wish it upon anyone.   I never want to forget this experience, I want to keep it in mind every time I hear of someone having to go down this path for it is one of the hardest things to go through.