Saturday

We got the very best of news last night!  The gynecologic oncologist at Johns Hopkins had the ultrasound read by his radiologist  there and looked at it themselves.  They had an entirely different reading than the radiologist here!

The bottom line is that he does not believe that it is a tumor and therefore not cancer.  He gave it a fancy name, but it basically  means that the fallopian tube is blocked and therefore enlarged.  It is now 7cm x 4cm x 3cm.  Fairly good sized, but not anything to be alarmed about.  The blood flow that was noted is also normal because blood flow does go to the fallopian tube.  He feels that at this point, the surgery would be a higher risk for me than waiting to see what happens with this.  Since I have had many abdominal surgeries I have a lot of scar tissue and adhesion's so another surgery would further complicate those issues.  We will continue to follow it with another ultrasound around the middle of July.

I am so relieved!  Two nights ago I was watering our garden and I wondered if I would be around when all of the tomatoes started to ripen.  Last night Kyle and I had decided to go on a date knowing that it may be the last time we have the opportunity to do that for some time.  We got the call after we had left town and it was so fun to celebrate the good news rather than just try to enjoy our last outing for some time.

The Lord has been so good to us!  The last weeks have been difficult as we tried to prepare for another medical battle.  We are thankful that we chose to get the opinion from JH again and thankful that I didn't have surgery that would have turned out to be unnecessary.  It also reminded us that God is in control of all things and that we need to continue to trust!  This issue isn't done because they are going to continue to follow it.  If it becomes quite painful I still may need to have it removed but at this point we are thankful to just leave it alone and continue with normal life!  :)