Yeah, surgery is behind us

Hi everyone.

Well we are all asleep on the couch except for Mom! I'm not surprised she is the only one that still has the energy to stay up and cheer on the Twins! It was a long, but good day. As I wrote before, we received some extremely good news today. The pathology results from her sentinel nodes found no cancer. In addition, the surgeon only had to remove 2 nodes total where sometimes they have to remove 4 to 5. He said that Mom's sentinel nodes were "very easy" to find and he was confident that he only needed to remove the 2 because they were the only ones near the tumor. Again, all really great news. And Mom did wonderful throughout the entire day. The wire localization wasn't that bad she said, probably thanks to some extra numbing medicine! And there were no complications with the surgery including no nausea afterwards, which she was a little worried about. She was up walking around and eating and drinking within an hour after surgery. She was ready to leave, but had to "patiently" wait for the nurse to discharge her. Lets just say she was so ready to go we helped her get dressed, took her off the monitor and she started to remove her own IV- that's what you get I guess when the patient and her 2 daughters are all nurses! Overall, things went very smoothly and we couldn't be happier. We were even blessed to be graced with familiar faces when our nurse Kelly from our biopsy last week was along for mom's wire localization and another girl we grew up with was her nuclear med tech- God took care of us and comforted us throughout every step of today. Thank you to all of our doctors, nurses and techs that did a wonderful job. And most importantly, thanks to all of you for keeping us in your thoughts and prayers. You gave Mom the confidence she needed to face this day with strength and courage and all of our prayers were answered thanks be to God. Thanks Grandma Marie for your homemade chicken noodle soup too, yum! Good night and we love you all SO much!

The Peterson's

P.S. The little girl Lindsey has been taking care of all summer was well enough to come home from the hospital today too, another answered prayer! It really has been a great day!