Everything Turned Out To Be OK!

Many of you know that our family has had quite the ordeal this past month. Mid April I went in for my yearly woman's exam (which I never do, the only time I really have gone in for them is when I have been pregnant) and we discovered that my IUD was MIA. I hadn't even had it very long, but it was no where to be found. My doctor ended up sending me up to Mckay to have a CT of my abdomen. They ended up finding my IUD (it had gone up into my fallopian tube) but they were more conderned with something they saw in my kidney. That night my doctor called me to tell me that they found a cancerous looking leasion in my kidney. SOOOO SCARY!!! I'm to young to have cancer, and here I was totally worried about my IUD being in my fallopian tube, and that is nothing compared to having cancer!

But things just fell right into place with getting into the best doctors and having a quick surgery (it seems usually you have to wait months to get in to a specialist, but I got in to one in 2 days) Like I said, things just fell right into place. Being a mom, I was more worried about my kids. School was coming to an end, and both Hunter and Mckell had fieldtrips, class parties, school carnivals and I was more worried about who was going to get them to everything that they needed to be too. Also, Lexi is a little mamma's girl, and I was sooo worried what affect this would have on her. But I also knew that I needed to get this thing out of me. So I went in for my surgery to remove 1/2 of my kidney. I had to stay in the hospital for 2 days so they could monitor me and make sure everything was ok.

I don't know why I was so worried about my kids, because they were totally taken care of. I have the BEST family, friends, and neighbors. This surgery totally kicked my butt. I don't think that I was even close to being coherent for about 2 weeks (it must have been the drugs :) ) I didn't get out of bed for 2 weeks and I slept pretty much most of the time. But my family, friends, and neighbors stepped it up and took care of everything. Everyday someone took my kids and made sure they got to were they needed to go, we had dinners brought in for 2 and 1/2 weeks, I even had friends come in and clean my bathrooms and kitchen and do our laundry. I don't know what I would have done without all of their help, I couldn't take care of myself let alone my kids. I am soooo grateful that my Heavenly Father has blessed me with such wonderful people in my life!

The tumor ended up being Benign, so that was great news! I'm still sore from the surgery, but I know that will get better, I'm just glad this is all done and we can put it behind us.

We ended up having to wait for 5 and 1/2 hours to go into surgery, because the surgery before me took longer than expected. It totally sucked because I hadn't eaten anything since noon the day before and I was starving!!!! They ended up taking me in for surgery at about 5:30 p.m. I had the best doctor, and would totally recommend him to anyone.

Hope this didn't gross you out, but the tumor is that clearish yellow lump on the kidney (the medical instrument is pointing to it) That is only half of it, the other half is inside the kidney. Isn't it amazing what they can do know a days!