NO SURGERY!

So the doctor said he would be operating unless the x-rays looked perfectly normal and behold, THEY LOOKED PERFECTLY GOOD! No Surgery. Hallelujah! The nasty NG tube is out and Dan will start having some liquids tomorrow. We are excited that Dan may be sitting at Aunt Patty's Resurrection Day celebration dinner table EATING! Lord Jesus, let it be so! I was at a wonderful prayer meeting last night and we prayed for this as well as praying for a good outcome in the possible surgery. I am so thankful Dan is not having surgery. Here is his blog form this morning:

Passing
Today's theme is Passing.
Passover is today, when God spared the children of Israel right before His mighty deliverance from Egypt.
This morning, I caught the end of To Kill a Mockingbird on TV, including the immortal moment when everyone stands and the old black man says to Scout, "Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing."
I am passing gas.
I am also passing through the contrast from yesterday's test.
Therefore, this morning, the doctor passed on the surgery option.

You read right. No surgery today. Hopefully no surgery at all.

The doctor said that my study looked normal. He even showed us the images. Neither he nor the radiologist nor I could see any dilation. Combined with me passing gas and contrast out of my system, he felt like surgery was not necessary for fear of opening me up, running his hands all over my intestines, and finding zilch. We're kind of relieved, since the surgery is a big deal, but also a little nervous that the food trial will yield the same result as last time. We'll take it slow, though, and pray that everything works fine.

Is this what we've been waiting and begging for? After months of prayer coming back seemingly answered with a 'no' or 'not yet', is God saying yes? The only thing that could have stopped the surgery was a clean study, and that's what I got. Will this last, or will it be only a moment of triumph? I don't know, but I'm going to flood God's inbox with e-mails asking that this be the end of my complications. So to speak. I hope you will do the same.

This, too, shall pass.

Pray for:
Successful food trial (no more need for hospitalizations or surgery)
Safe travels for Ashley (who is going back to school for a few days to pick up some much-needed clinical hours)
My release from the hospital by Easter
and thank God that I won't be in surgery in 4 hours as was thought.

Passover scriptures:

Exodus 12:1-14
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
“This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you.
“Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household.
“And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.
“Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats,
“and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.
“Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.
“They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.
“Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts.
“And you shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn.
“In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord's Passover.
“For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord.
“The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
“This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast.

So thankful that the Lord spared my firstborn by the blood of the Perfect Lamb of God, Yeshua the Messiah!!!!!!!!!