{"id":543,"date":"2010-04-14T10:26:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T15:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whaleylife.com\/blog\/?p=543"},"modified":"2010-04-15T17:21:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T22:21:58","slug":"an-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whaleylife.com\/blog\/archives\/543","title":{"rendered":"An update"},"content":{"rendered":"

*This post has been updated by a non-medicated Julie<\/em><\/p>\n

If you are anything like my mom, you may wish I would pick up the phone and call you every morning just so you can hear for yourself that I am okay. And even though Facebook is great and I love to read all your posts about me and then the dozen comments of people I don’t know who are praying for me, I still like this blog thing. So I will continue to update here.<\/p>\n

Overall surgery went well. We didn’t have to wait too long, and Ethan had a private room to hang in while I was in surgery. When I began to wake up, I heard them talk about my drain and I knew that was probably a bad sign. The first step was to take 1-2 lymph nodes and test those. I may not need a drain if that was all he had to do. But if the first node came back positive,\u00a0 he would need to take more, and I would definitely need the drain. I was moved back into my room, waking up more, feeling nauseous, a little pain and wondering what he found. When the doctor came in, he told me the findings of cancer in the first lymph node and that in the next days we would find out what the other ones looked like. It was not the news that any of us wanted to hear, but it is reality now. Maybe later I will get into to more of an emotional explanation but for now, I am worn out from thinking about it. I did want to update the blog and let you all know that this is a way you can keep up with me.<\/p>\n

What we know now is that the cancer is in my lymphatic system. And that means, I am moved to early stage 2 cancer. We are waiting for the pathology report on the tumor and the lymph nodes and will form a plan for the future. Our best guess is that I will need chemo treatments, maybe radiation and\/or hormone therapy to follow.<\/p>\n

So let’s call 2010 as a year from hell. Let’s look at this as a life that I do not want to experience for eternity. The worry, the fear, the pain, the sadness, the heat – my Word the heat. I look forward to knowing that this is not God’s plan for us, and trusting that one day all of this will be behind us and we will have a glorious life to finish in heaven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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