I am so glad that your recovery is coming along so nicely! I pray for good news and a good prognosis when you return for your follow-up on the 31st.

There's one thing that puzzles me. Cancer surgery is major surgery, right? So why was it treated as an outpatient surgery? Shouldn't people who are operated on for cancer be hospitalized, instead of going home on the same day as the operation? When I had my gallbladder operation a few decades ago, I spent the next several days in the hospital, and that was a more minor surgery, I suspect, than yours was.

Kathy, that's a good question! I too was surprised. Yes, Cancer is a major surgery, which you go under general anesthetic. 14 years ago I was hospitalized for a week before I went home. This was during that terrible pandemic of outbreak of "SARS", which may people died from at that time. I had the exact same surgery, a lumpectomy to remove a cancerous tumor on the left side, plus I had 3 lymph nodes removed then as well. Lymph nodes are usually removed to see if the cancer has spread through them, to other parts of the body.

Every single surgery that I went for I was hospitalized for some time. Now I was told things have changed, I was told if they were going to remove the lymph nodes this time I would had at least an overnight stay or couple extra days in hospital. However, this wasn't necessary for this time being, as there was no tumor or any need to have lymph nodes removed.

I believe, that there are so many cancer patients now, then ever before. Many are going for surgeries, perhaps this is the only way they can handle the influx of patients, for the many different reasons for surgery needed.

Times are changing Kathy, what happened a decade ago, no longer applies today as far as hospitalization is concerned. Seriously, I was so glad, that I was let to go home same day, where I could get a good rest to recuperate. I could never sleep in hospital without a sleeping pill, because of all the interruption during the night, noises in the halls, other patients snoring, nurses waking you up taking your temperature, blood pressure etc.

I hope this is it as far as hospitals are concerned; until I go back on Jan.31st, 2018. I just want to hear, that this was the beginning of cancer, and they caught it at a very early stage, and they removed it completely. This is the good news I want to hear.

Yes Valerie, trusting our Savior for good news!
and by the way, I love love that picture you have on the site of the redeemed rising to meet Jesus in the air
you are in the hands of this same Jesus, who will call us up one day :yellow_heart: :blossom:

Yes Regina, I am in the same hands of Jesus, who will call us up one day to meet the Lord in the air.

I totally agree with you, I trust God in all things, for I know that His ways are higher, and there is a purpose
for everything that happens in our lives. I've seen God turn many bad things, into good for others, and for a greater purpose than our own. I believe, we should let go and let God handle whatever it is, so that we can see and be part of a greater purpose on God's agenda, for our lives and the lives of others.

Glad to see you like the picture, I do as well!:latin_cross: :two_hearts: