Answered Prayer

Monday, September 15

Tyler's surgery is over and it went well. No it went great! According to the doctors it went better than any other surgery of this type they have ever performed. Tyler is doing amazingly well, he looks great and was up in the recovery room drinking a coke. He only has a little pain. It is in the area that the doctors grafted skin (which I didn't know they were doing). They grafted skin from his upper thigh to put over his incision area. The doctors said this will be the most painful part of his surgery. After the surgery was over, the anesthesiologist administered a pain block in his sciatic nerve. It will remain there until Friday. This will prevent severe pain because tomorrow he will have to get up and do physical therapy. His leg is in a metal type brace that is open in the front for the incision and he has a drain in the incision. The best news is his incision was from just under his knee down his leg. It was only about 10-12 inches long. Most of these surgeries have incisions that are about 26-28 inches long. The doctors removed all of the muscles and tissues around the bone including the bone and tumor. The tumor was sent to the lab and they should have the results on Friday. There was no sign of the cancer spreading so......Tyler is now cancer free. What a huge relief for all of us that love Tyler so much.

Sarah and Charles arrived early at the hospital this morning (before 8:00). Tyler was scheduled at 10:00 but the surgery didn't begin until 11:30. Sarah went with Tyler into the OR room and she said she was amazed at the instruments. She said there were thousands of metals instruments on dozens of tables around the room. They administered anesthesia and they shuffled her quickly out of the room. The doctors called them frequently with updates throughout the surgery. The surgeon came out around 3:50 to talk to Sarah and Charles while it took the team a while to finish things up. Tyler was in recovery at 5:00. After a time in recovery he was sent to ICU. He will remain there for about 2 days. If everything goes well, he may get to go home on Friday. That makes Sarah a little nervous because of the pain and how to deal with that.

Sarah said they had special prayer on Saturday and again on Sunday. Uncle Steve (who is an elder at his church) anointed Tyler on Sunday during a special prayer time. God provided his mercy, grace and love today on Tyler. We are so grateful and thankful. I want to thank all of you who have had special prayer for Tyler. I feel a tremendous sigh of relief! We received answered prayer today!
Stay close! Kim