LIFE AT 60 - BIOPSY

Well, it has been an incredibly long and interesting day!  Long only because I was up a 0420 and lots of tiredation from the anesthesia.  Dr said that by tomorrow that should be bye bye!  He told me I would have a pretty sore throat, well I have a sore throat, but not very.  So I really believe that God is answering prayer and Im feeling great about what is to come!  I probably wont find out about the pathology till maybe Wednesday.  It usually takes 3 or 4 business days.  However Im not anxious for anything.

Anesthesia is some crazy stuff.  :)  They gave me a "relaxer" before we got to the operating room, and I remember going in the room and joking, and kinda remember sliding onto the table from the bed, but after that have NO CLUE!  I woke up in recovery, and started talking to the 2 nurses.  I was pretty amazed that I could talk.  They started giving me some ice chips, and some sips of water, 1st few hurt a bit, but really not much.  I actually tried to sing a bit, and it works!!!  Not many notes, but a few, and that is cool.

When I first got in my "room", I guess it is kinda like a prep room, not large, but big enough.  Usual things, BP, temp, questions and more questions.  Normally people are a bit amped about being readied to go to surgery, but I was quite calm, a total peace.  I knew I had many people praying for me at that time. Awesome to know that people actually got up very early on a Saturday morning to pray for Gods safety on someone.  Not only on me, but on all the nurses, Dr, Anesthesiologist, etc.  WOW.  Anyway back to the calmness.  One sure way to tell is the BP.  Mine normally is around 130/85 That is normal resting for me.  This morning it was 130/64.  Total peace, total calm.  Messing with everyones head as they came in to make sure I was who I was supposed to be by saying Id never heard of this Compton guy!  One nurse was totally confused.  :)

I guess the highlight of the day, (besides coming home), was a nurse named Angie!  She is the one that met me in reception, she had a rough start to the day.  She was surprised by a small bit of snow and was running late, so she was all apologetic, not a big deal!  She was also the nurse who checked me out of the joint!  I had the opportunity to talk to her about Jesus and His healing power.  She is a believer, but she also told me about her mother and her husbands father.  BOTH of them have cancer.  She was impressed, for lack of a better word, with my positive attitude toward this thing I have going on.  I started telling her about all the verses in the Bible that talk about healing!  My friend Jim sent me a list of 101 verses!  I have some AWESOME friends.  Friends that care for me, that pray for me, and that hold me up when I get weak.  Im totally humbled by what has happened to me in the last 2 weeks.  Literally a huge change in my life.  My outlook on life, and total attitude adjustment.  It is really what God is doing in me, as opposed to whatever this "mass" might be.  Almost freaks me out a bit, but Im hanging on the ride, and I think the biggest secret to this in God's eyes, is "willing".

Im willing, are you?  Think about it.