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...or rub a lucky rabbit's foot or something!

As some of you know, I've had some health challenges this year. Tomorrow is d-day for having an abdominal mass removed. If all goes well, it will biopsy as benign, I'll be home from the hospital by Saturday, and back up to speed in about 4 weeks. Unfortunately, it's too large for a convenient laparoscopic procedure, so it requires a full laparotomy. Recovery should be fun!

I'm trying to concentrate on all the positives: I have excellent health insurance, wonderful doctors, and needed a bit of down time anyway. However, that nagging voice in the back of my mind that this will only be the beginning is getting louder and louder and louder.

So, keep good thoughts that this sucker isn't malignant, and hopefully I'll be back on a keyboard in a few weeks!
 
I wish you the best of luck and that the results are exactly what you hope they are!!! With such good doctors in your corner, I'm sure everything will work out perfectly for ya.
 
Or, you could look at it as the culmination of things your body did to improve some sort of inner workings; it's heaped all the crud into that mass and now you'll be rid of it all, to lead a happy healthy and productive rest of your life.

I'll be thinking good thoughts your way too.
 
You have my best wishes as well Terese!!
 
I know you will be fine and you know you will be fine. So, no worries, right?

Look at another bright side: with your down time, you will be right here to keep us in check.

Good luck to ya. You deserve it. Prayers for ya.
 
I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaack!

Weak as a cat, but I'm home. The procedure itself was more complicated than the surgeon had counted on, but by the end of the day the only thing that mattered was that the mass was benign, and they got it all.

Now I'll work on getting some strength back. I won't be able to work for at least 2 weeks, so maybe I'll even get some organizational projects finished around the house. Or maybe I'll become a soap opera junkie :hehe:
 
I am happy for you that it was benign; now, take your time recovering and don't overdo.
If it was a complicated procedure, you need to take time and recover slowly.
Welcome back!!
 
Congrats on the good news! Now relax and try to recover, and be sure to move around plenty.
Surgery is terrible. I've only had surgery once, and it was laproscopic, and I then discovered that in my mind, there never will be elective surgeries in my life. Elective means that I don't have to, and I ain't. LOL.
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Good to hear you came through OK, Terese. Just take it easy for a while to let the body heal.
 
I had almost the same thing except I had a mass next to my kidney. I wasnt as lucky and mine ended up being malignant but it was in a location where all of it could be removed so chemo wasnt needed. I just need to keep my fingers crossed nothing else pops up. You will feel better sooner then you think :)
 
I'm so glad you didn't need to undergo chemo :( You're too young to have to deal with health problems!

Take care of yourself!
 
Yeah I got very lucky, some got luckier though :) Just blood tests every 3 months and some nuclear scans every now and then. I can deal with that :scatter:
 
Good thing you didnt have to have chemo. My mother had lymphoma and had to do chemotherapy thats would made here sick all the time not the lymphoma. Good luck
 
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