Calm after the storm

Last night was rough. Misty was in a ton of pain. She has a fairly high pain tolerance and she was still feeling it. The normal orally administered narcotic pain relievers (percocet/vicadin/etc) weren’t working so well, so they gave her a few shots of morphine. Unfortunately, this stll didn’t quite take the pain to a nominal level – so she sucked it up and managed to get a few (but only a few) hours of sleep.  At 6am, the nuero-surgery house staff did their daily rounds and checked on her. Promptly after that we got whisked away for another MRI. So not too much sleep last night. This MRI will show how successful the 2nd roud was in removing tumor region.

 In the last hour we moved over to a normal room (not Intensive Care) as Misty is doing quite better than the usual threshold for being in Intensive Care. Really, she is just in a ton of pain and her face is quite swollen on the sides. She’s a little weak and has a bit of trouble with speech, but overall this is much better than we expected. It was important that she stay in ICU each night following the surgeries to mitigate the risk of any complications – but luckily, we didn’t have to deal with much in that area. Now she is sleeping and her pain has subsided a little bit (its down to the “really bad level…*smirk*) so she can manage to get some rest (hence the title).

I’ve gotten a bunch of emails asking how everyone can support Misty in the coming weeks.  Unfortunately, Misty will be going on a special diet following the surgery, so we are not recommending anyone deliver any prepared meals. Really, what we need is prayer through the next step of the journey. Misty has high grade cancer in her brain that has already shown unresponsiveness to the initial chemotherapy. As such, the time of real faith and trial is when we get home from this hopsital and we have to live life trusting that God is going to do something extraordinary. I think we are ready for that, but your prayers are really an encouragement…

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