WE ARE SO BLESSED!

This week has been a roller coaster of emotions. Having my thyroid removed, recovering from surgery and getting over the anesthesia, and trying to forget what the doctor told us after the surgery. (that he didn't like the way it looked and he thought it was cancer)...yuck.. Finally today we had our post. op. appointment to get my pathology results. The Dr.'s office called this morning to cancel my appointment. I was like, NO, I'm still coming, I have to know today! We already had arrangements for the kids to go places and Eric moved his schedule around so we could drive the 3 hours round trip to go to Riverside. All the Dr.'s in the office and the surgeon were booked for today so I convinced her that my internal medicine doctor who is here in Palm Desert SHOULD give me my results. He's in the same network of doctors. Luckily they said ok. So it worked out that we didn't even have to drive far. (I don't know why they didn't do that for me in the first place)
My doctor was so nice and cut right to the chase and told us everything was OK! Whew... He explained the lab results as 'adenomatous nodules with cystic degeneration, fibrosis, etc.' Which are big words that mean BENIGN, ugly and swollen, but not cancer. Yeah! He of course said he wasn't my surgeon or endocrinologist and I should still see them but as far as he could tell, everything looked OK. We asked for the A.OK to start trying again for babies, and he wanted me to make sure my thyroid levels were stable with the endocrinologist first.
But, we are just so elated that it came back CLEAR! Through the last week I've mentally gone down many scenarios in my head of what ifs... and I just feel so blessed that this trial can now be through. I have been so comforted through the entire thing, really I've been OK. I never felt like cancer would be something I would have to go through right now. But after the Dr. talked to us after surgery, we started preparing ourselves for something different. And if we would have had to go through radiation, etc. we would have been OK. (But I'm so glad we don't) I just have so much hope and faith. What would I do without the gospel? I have grown closer to the Lord through this ordeal, and maybe that's why I needed to go through it. But I just know that whatever we have to deal with in life, the Lord strengthens us if we rely on Him. I am so grateful for the power of the priesthood, and an amazing husband who is a worthy priesthood holder. Our family and friends have been so kind and have given us a shoulder to lean on, and been so supportive. Thank you for all your prayers and kind words. I have never felt so loved, thank you.
I didn't want to make this long but a few months ago when this health stuff started we also challenged the YW in our ward to memorize the Living Christ. We as leaders did it with them and all went to Disneyland as a celebration of us all doing it! (I ended up missing Disneyland because I was busy riding in an ambulance to the hospital having a dramatic miscarriage) But as I've gone through all of this I was so grateful for the words of the Living Christ that have been imprinted into my mind. All the things we go through in this life, He has experienced all the pains, disappointments, and heartache. I guess if we want to try to become like Him we have to experience at least a small portion of what He has.