Terry, be assured that you and Jo have our thoughts and prayers.

Please don't let this setback cause a knee jerk reaction. I have seen others who have put off full-timing for one reason or another and they wind up never making the move. Wait and see what happens and then stick to your original plan if at all possible.

Remember you never know what tomorrow will bring and you can't plan for everything that might happen.

Jim

Thoughts of you are carried within my circles..

I for one understand the hic-ups involved in life. Dont consider it a setback just a reason to set out in a better stance.
things always come around.

After following you on here , you have become well respected by me and I look forward to sitting back and enjoying that breathe of fresh air With you and Jo we all search for!!!!

6 more months and hopefully the key gets turned.........I'll be looking forward to seeing you 2 out there !!




Respectfully looked up upon

I hope Moira wasn't texting at the time:) Terry you and Jo hang in there prayers are in place.

Terry & Jo,

I'm so sorry that you've hit this detour!  I'm hoping that this will only be a minor issue & all will be well soon!

Sorry about the news, Terry and Jo, but stay strong and think positive.  I second what Bill and Linda have said.  Prayer, as you know, is a VERY powerful thing.  I truly believe that there are times when our Heavenly Father sends us a curve ball to test our faith.  Hold strong to your faith and God will see you through.  Our thoughts are with you both as we lift you up in prayer.

God bless,

Terry and Jo wrote:

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I may have to have a long visit with Moira (3rd grandchild - 3 years old) about defensive driving.  Check out the photo below of her first accident.

Terry

Yes, she is the one behind the wheel.  Kevin took this with his cell phone.

-- Edited by Terry and Jo on Monday 3rd of September 2012 07:56:31 PM

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 I see nothing wrong with this photo!  She was testing the "off roading" capabilities of that Jeep!

I echo what everyone else has said.  Keep your heads up, looking forward.  The Good Lord will take care of things.  Just a little Nolan Ryan Fastball.

Oh, those hiccups and detours and roadblocks!   We are holding you in our thoughts and prayers . . . knowing that all is good and perfectly timed. From all you've shared, it is apparent you're handling it with grace and peace and faith . . . a great testimony to others who have to wait.  

Jo underwent an MRI this morning and then around 2:00 pm, we went to the office of the surgeon who will do the surgery.  Come to find out, he is a friend of another doctor here in Oklahoma City that was raised in my home town.  Considering that my home town's population at its peak was only 627 people, the fact that this doctor has even been to my home town on a visit with our fellow home-towner is amazingly coincidental.  He asked where we were raised after wrongly assuming that we were from the upper midwest of the U.S.  When we said we were from the Oklahoma Panhandle, he asked what town.  That is when he told us of his friendship with my fellow home-towner.

The next step will be for Jo to go to the Comprehensive Breast Center on Tuesday morning at 8:00 for them to insert a "wire."  Then at about 11:00am, we will be at the hospital for the outpatient surgery for the doctor to enter along that wire.  He described the original "crystalized" anomaly as small enough that the needle biopsy may have actually removed the bulk of that anomaly.  However, he will go in and remove a section of tissue about the size of a golf ball on Tuesday morning.

Following that procedure, then the tissue mass removed will be tested again to get a final pathological result of the condition of that mass.  While the biopsy showed the "crystallized" mass as non-cancerous, the study of the removed mass will be the final determination as to whether it was actually benign.

Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers.  I am overwhelmed by the response that all of you have given.

Thank you very much.

Oh, by the way, the doctor and the lady that set up the scheduling for the upcoming procedures are both very interested in the idea of full-time RV'ing in the future.  I've even given them the website for RV Dreams as a source of extremely valuable information should they actually choose to follow this lifestyle.

Terry

Terry and Jo----you both are in my familes prayers.

Flyone

Patricia,

That would be nice, but we aren't even on the road yet.  While we are living in our fifth wheel full-time, we still have jobs until we retire.  That was the reason for saying that we might have a "hiccup" since we might not get to travel as soon as we had originally planned.  However, in all of life, one has to "roll with the flow."

Now for the update:

Jo's surgery was today around noon or before.  Less than an hour was involved with the actual surgery, but the preparatory work (inserting a wire in one facility) and then getting checked into the Outpatient Surgery was what took most of the time.  After the surgery, the doctor came and told me that the surgery went very well and that Jo was waking up fairly nicely.

By about 2:00pm, we were back home.  Time will tell how things go as Jo doesn't like taking some of the pain medications because they make her feel "loopy."  So, the doctor had them put in some extra pain medication in her IV and he also added some "numbing stuff" in the surgery area.  Beyond that, she will most likely rely on cold packs and extra strength Tylenol.  She's got this idea that she wants to go back to work on Thursday (two days from now), but I may need to try to get her to at least wait until the pathology report comes back either later this week or early next week before going back.  I would think the doctor ought to have some say-so as to when she actually returns to work.

That is hard for Jo.  She is still a farm girl at heart and wants to be at doing what she is supposed to do.  So, I guess we'll see how things go tomorrow in my ability to convince her.

In the meantime, I reached a milestone tonight.  Jo worked on the weekend to make up some chili and other things that I can heat up.  My co-workers at the job were kidding me that what I would be doing was "nuking" the chili.  Well, I will get to give them the news that I actually heated it up on the stove-top.  Wow!!!!

(Never mind that Jo still had to tell me how high to turn up the flame.)

Next report will be after the results of the pathology report is given to us.

Thanks again for all your thoughts and prayers.  I was approached on a firearms forum that I participate with from someone looking for a good RV forum to check out.  (He had read where I mentioned that I moderated here.)  I told him that he probably couldn't find a nicer bunch of folks on a forum anywhere.

God bless you all.

Terry

I'm glad Jo is recovering well. I suspect the waiting is going to be hard and probably part of why she is anxious to get back to work -- Think about something other than the test results!

I wanted to pass along an organization a friend of mine founded in Austin, TX. Cherie is a breast cancer survivor and is doing some great things to support women and their "support crews." You and Jo might both find it helpful.

Heal in Comfort

Continued prayers and good thoughts...

So glad to hear this good news that it's not cancer!!  Yay!!