Hello Fellow Friends, Family, and Prayer Warriors,
Its time for surgery #3! Thats right! It seems like yesterday I was first posting my first few paragraphs on here, and now here we are writing about the final step in this long process of getting better... YIPEE! The past few weeks have been filled with ABSOLUTELY NOTHING on my part... which has been sorta nice. Surgery #2 took quite a tole on my fragile body, and needless to say I was in EXTREME pain for about 3 weeks. Last week I started hurting so much more, I was feeling very sick, and was asking for way to many pain meds. Wednesday night I started running fever, so we scheduled a dr appointment for the next morning, bright and early. That was one of the hardest mornings for me, because mornings are already hard on me and tend to be the most painful, only to add feeling crappy, and at the time, ZERO pain meds. We were worried I had accidentally pulled some stitches apart and was leaking bowel into my body, so we were quite anxious to find out what was wrong with me. Dr. Young did a few tests, and soon walked in with a giant smile on his face, high fiveing my mom and says, "She has type B influenza!". He explained that the flu raises the bodies sensors and so all the cuts, and staples, and pain from the surgery two weeks prior, would be multiplied by 100. That explained all the pain... lovely lol. All three of us had never been so happy to know that someone had the flu. I was given Tamaflu, and within 24 hours, I was feeling SO MUCH better.
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| Books for 9 hours of classes... yyuuuyy |
Tomorrow (Wednesday), we will travel to Dallas once again, to consult with Dr. Olsen about surgery #3. We will determine on a date, and he will look at me to make sure im still "up to par" for this next surgery. Surgery #3 is going to be super easy, and pretty painless. They will sew up the tiny hole in my small intestine that is being used as the ileostomy, then they will tuck that into my stomach (where it SHOULD BE i might add lol), and finally they will sew my stomach up. Easy peezy, as 1, 2, 3 folks!:)
I'm also hoping he will release me to WORK and DRIVE again. Now that i'm feeling better, I am so ready to see my friends, and make a little money. Spring is coming, and I need so new clothes... Right?! HAHAHA:) Clothes or no clothes, I'm ready for spring to come. Spring means warm weather, watching my little bro play baseball (my favorite, and this year on our high school team!), and my birthday! I still haven't wrapped my mind around the fact that I will be 19... crazy y'all. Crazy.
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| This is pretty much what it looks like... lets tuck her in! |
I'm also about to begin my online classes, which start the 14th. I got all the books yesterday, and im anxious to open them up and start reading already! But, i'm pacing myself, and I'm going to give myself until the actual day to open them, just because I know that 2 weeks into school, i'm already going to be hating it. I took 12 hours in high school, i'm taking 9 this semester, and 9 more this summer (broken up into two different semesters of corse)... that way by the time fall rolls around, I will be exactly where everyone else I graduated with and started with at WT is. CAN I GET A HIGH FIVE?! Yeah, i'm proud of what's about to go down:) I also FINALLY got an Instagram, and i'm addicted! You all post great photos! I know everyone and their dog are always like "go follow me, go follow me, go follow me, if you don't follow me you don't love jesus... ect.", but yes i'm guna do this: Go follow me!:) My username is kaitlinmckayla:) Ok, see, it wasn't that bad;)
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| These people... This place. LOVE |
So with ALLLLLLLLLLL that being said, thats whats going down in the life of yours truly. Sometimes, i'm going to be honest and just say, sometimes I wish I could give up. Its easy to be strong and fighting and excited in the beginning, before the GIANT freight train hits you, then runs you over, then invites its friend trains, then they run you over to top it all off, which leaves you feeling like you've been hit by a freight train. *sigh*... But thats what I have my friends, family, and prayer warriors for. Its amazing to me to walk in United or Walmart and see a friend, or my moms friend, or my moms grandma's friends uncles son-in-law half removed, and for them to say that they are praying. It literally tear's me up EVERYTIME, to know just how many people are praying. You truly don't know what an impact you are making. So thank you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Thank you to my family for being strong when I'm crying at night, or grouchy through the day cuz I'm ready for all this to end. Thank you to the few friends (you know who you are), who will talk to me for hours on the phone late at night when I just need to vent, or come and get me and take me to lunch, or come just to visit. Thank you everyone who prays for me every single day. Thank you for anyone who has ever prayed for me or my family... I am one blessed girl to be loved by so many.
This is the last step... Jesus is good. I will NEVER stop saying it.
I LOVE YOU ALL
-Kait
