Prayer request, going under the knife tomorrow

mogley98 · January 31, 2021 16:33

So an update on my Cancer battle, after completing the chemo and radiation I became a candidate for esophagectomy and lymphectomy surgery.

Essentially the treatments worked well enough to warrant an attempt to remove all the remaining diseased tissues through this surgery. They will make a new esophagus out of my stomach and reconnect me. I go in tomorrow at 6am and they expect 6-8 hours of surgery along with 5-7 days in the ICU afterwards.

After finally healing up from the rad/chemo treatments and being in great spirits and health (I can eat anything right now) I seriously considered just rolling the dice and living life at 100 MPH until the cancer comes back and gets me. That could have been 2 weeks or ten years, no one knows.

After getting a second opinion from another thoracic surgeon who looked at my scans and case pro bono and said he would not personally go through with this, I have prayed about it and decided trying the surgery is my best long term option even though 80% of patients still have the cancer return. 1 in 3 patients experience serious complications. I have faith that what will be, will be.

It is said if two or more gather in my name, so I ask those of you who are believers to join with me and hopefully if it is his will I will return to this world and continue to have the opportunity to live on this earth for awhile longer.

If not I've certainly enjoyed the fellowship and opportunity to annoy the Admins and Mods over the years!

God Bless

Bill

Prayer request, going under the knife tomorrow

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