So surgery went well. They ended up taking about 1 foot of my colon out. They ended up taking out my appendix and a cyst on my ovary. I'm sure most of you have heard...I have stage 3 colon cancer. 2 out of 14 lymphnodes are cancerous and I start chemo in 3-4 weeks. They want my body to heal from the surgery. I cried on the phone to Brandon after I heard the news. Other than that I haven't cried (probably cause it hurts my stomach/incision too much). I also know I'll kick cancer's bum bum! I won't let this bring me down. I have so much support! I get texts, phone calls, emails etc daily saying how much everyone loves me and how awesome I'm gonna do. Everyone is rooting for me! Maybe reality hasn't set in yet, but I won't let this stop me from working, growing and starting a family one day. I'm somewhat excited for the future...to say I killed cancer before age 30!

As of now (May 20th) I'm still in the hospital. The Dr's originally said 5-7 days. I'm on day 9. That's frustrating. i was on TPN for about 4 days to gain some weight, because I wasn't eating well. (I lost 10 pounds before surgery). I was having bowel movements the day or two after surgery so that was great news! I was walking (with pain) about 4 times a day. Trying to shower completely wore me out. I loved to sleep! Unfortunately the set back was my incision was infected. So they had to re-cut my stitches open. Pure hell! I felt every cut, tug, pull and push. I'm pretty sure I broke Brandon's hand from squeezing so hard. They do have to change the dressing twice a day and that's hell too! Luckly no more cutting just changing/packing the gauze. It has relieved so much pain though and I'm up walking way more and way less pain! They will be putting a wound vac on me this weekend and hopefully I'll be going home Sunday...with the wound vac. Now that I'm feeling better i feel like I'm actually gonna heal and get through this stupid surgery. I can't wait to start eating good again, pizza has never sounded so good! Brick oven here I come! I gotta get all kinds of fattened up for chemo. The good news about chemo is, I may not lose my hair. (I secretly want a long pretty wig...maybe I'll just wear one anyway). I'm gonna try to keep this updated as the journey begins and keep up with the pics!

I love you all very much. Thank you for your love and support. I have so so so much support it's amazing! Why Heavenly Father decided I needed this trial? I don't know. I know I'll grow because of this. I know I'll be a mother one day. I know I'll beat this!