Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | I'm home - thanks for the prayers/kind words

I have been truly amazed at the Lord's care over us... there is a Psalm that says "I cried to the Lord and He delivered me from all my fears". That has been SOO true! Let me see if I can recount all the things I'd been worried about...

1. the kids were great, very cooperative for their Mamaw and Papaw
2. no traffic into DC, we got there going 80 the whole time with no stops and never got lost
3. We stayed with our friends parents. Well our friends got sick and so didn't even come over to visit with us. So we sat around all evening with their folks whom we don't know - I sort of dreaded that, I'm a private person believe it or not. Well, come to find out these people literally MINISTERED to us all evening! They were SOOOOOOOOOOOO kind and prayed with us and encouraged us, the mother (who I practically now feel like is MY mother, or one of them) goes in Monday for her last round of radiation to fight breast cancer. She has an amazing testimony of how the Lord has brought her through this ordeal with so much JOY... it just did my heart so much good to spend the evening with these kind people who were so wonderful to us.
4. we took the metro in to the hospital and it let us out at the front door of GWU, no walking
5. the doctor was so so so so so SOOOOOOOOOO nice, I mean I could not believe how nice, and every nurse I had along the way jsut kept saying what a wonderful doctor he was, by the time it was time for the procedure to start I didn't feel any hesitation, I felt completely at ease
6. during this procedure you are only put out to "twilight" not completely "under"... last time this drove me to a panic, this time I was relaxed and felt like I was in good hands
7. he found gobs of veins gon awry and fixed them all, to me this was good news because I feel validated that it was not all in my head and indeed needed to be done... once the inflammation goes down and the soreness goes away I should feel like a new woman!!!!
8. I was not overly nauseous after and never threw up - BIG fear of mine, and also I was able to sleep the whole LONG drive home and never throw up....

These are only the highlights of what I can remember, but I want to say that God answerws prayer and He looks out for us even in what feels like dire circumstances.

Thank you so much for your kind words... it will take several days/weeks for the inflammation and soreness to go down, he embolized several veins with metal coils and some with a balloon and then a "glue" of some kind, the point is all that is making me pretty sore but once it goes down I should feel tons better and able to spend time on my feet without pain. I cannot wait!

I better get some sleep now... it's good to be home. Thanks again,
Love,
Michelle

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Take care,
Michelle
...the greatest of these is LOVE. (I Cor 13)

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