Ok, so it's been quite a while since I've updated this. So much has happened. I had my surgery October 23rd. The Dr. ran into some complications and had to open me up to remove it. The scar tissue from my previous 3 c-sections caused everything to web together. My uterus was literally attached to one of my kidneys, my stomach and my liver. As well as my ovaries were fused together with scar tissue so both had to be removed. What started as a simple orthoscopic surgery turned into pretty much a nightmare. But all is removed, and the biopsy has shown that although there were many pre-cancerous cells in the tumors found, they were benign at the time of removal. So now I am on a hormone patch, since she had to remove everything, yes, cervix, uterus and both ovaries had to be removed. It has made for a longer recovery time, but I am overcoming. One day at a time and I've been blessed with a lot of people willing to help out. Troy was able to be home for my surgery and was here to take care of me for the first week post-surgery. It was extremely difficult to tell him goodbye, but it had to be done. I've struggled harder this time around more than the girls have. Only 5 more months and the man of my life will be in my arms again. Counting the days! Anyway, while Troy was home on Emergency leave, we were blessed to have my little brother Tom on R&R leave from his deployment to afghanastan as well. So we jumped at the blessing and had family pictures taken. What with never knowing what tomorrow may bring, we wanted to capture us all together again! So below are the pictures we had done. Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers. Keep 'em coming, it's not over yet! But I am healing, my heart is mending.....and soon we will all be a family together again!
This is my parents, my brother & his wife, my sister along with Troy & I and our 4 beautiful girls
This is Troy and myself with our beautiful girls. Tabitha is 9, Kathryn is 8, Jordan is 6, and Samantha is 3.
This is my baby brother and his beautiful wife! We are so glad to have her as a part of our family. She helps keep me going when the deployment starts to get to me. Thanks Kels!
And yes, all the pictures are different! The photographer had a blast taking pictures for us. She was amazed at how well behaved the girls were and how well they listened. We didn't have to do any retakes! AMAZING! All of us were looking at the camera and smiling at the same time! It was AWESOME! Best photo shoot ever!
