Livers are like Lizards

Howdy All-

Thanks for all of your thoughts and prayers and positive vibes too!  They are working!

As many of you know, I haven’t been feeling well since August. Mainly tired, nauseous and little appetite.  I met with the liver specialist today and he was fantastic. He has decided that I need to have surgery to remove the hepatic adenoma (small benign growth on my liver)  They believe it was caused by oral birth control which I was taking for my ovarian cyst.

Like I said, the doctor and his team were fantastic. They spent a lot of time explaining everything, answered questions and in the end said God is watching out for you, I agree! I am very lucky to have found this now and have it removed because he said one of the common complications is for it to rupture during pregnancy.

So I have a laparoscopic (good news) liver surgery scheduled for Tuesday, October 28 at Methodist Hospital in Dallas (off 30 just west of downtown at Beckley) I have to be there at 9:30am, but the surgery will start around noon.

Interesting fact: They said you can remove up to 75% of your liver and it will regenerate. Crazy. They aren’t taking that much, but good to know that the liver is spunky Livers are like lizards.

We will keep you posted! Feel free to pass this along, I’m sure I missed people that are wondering what’s up!

Love,
Jess (and Zach too!)