What a Day!

Warning...this post will discuss the surgery of my wife...and will include pictures. This will either seem awful or super cool to you...but either way...be warned!

So on Wednesday November 7th, my wife Amy went in for a hysterectomy. She had a fibroid found in her uterus and--after careful consideration--it was decided that it would be best to remove it.

For those of you who read this, you know she is also the Executive Director of the United Way of Coshocton County. So the surgery was pushed back quite a bit to make sure the campaign was not affected. Now that the campaign has been kicked off, she decided now was the time to have it done.

The reason she decided to have this done was the size of the fibroid. It was noticed at the size of a golf ball...but now had grown to the size of a baseball. For those of you who know Amy, she doesn't have a ton of extra room for something that size to reside!

We arrived at the hospital at 5am and the surgery took place at 8am. All went very well and she is recovering nicely.

We asked the nurse on the way to surgery if we could "take a picture" of the fibroid. She actually physically turned around to look at us and said, "Picture of What?" We told her we wanted a picture of the fibroid. As my wife pointed out, "We bought the tickets. We might as well see the show!"

The surgeon complied! And guess what? It was even bigger than I thought! Can you imagine this being inside of Amy? Dr. Lenko even put her hand there to give it some perspective!



And then she went one further and got out a measuring stick!



I mean this is probably tough for some to look at...but how cool?

Thanks for your thoughts and prayers!