January 30, 2008… I had my hysterectomy. It saved my life.
I am so happy about this. Today is a one year anniversary for me, and I have been celebrating it all day. Mostly while I was teaching Illustrator level 1 to four students.
I had been told that it would take a year to begin to feel fully healed. They were right. The past year has been hard on my body, mostly because I work all the time and go to school full time and study a lot.
Even though I am still tired all the time from all that I do, I feel so much better than I did before the surgery. I am not anemic all the time. Yay!
I just don’t know how I can fully say thank you to my family and friends who helped me through all this. I feel so blessed that I have been helped to much that I pulled off a great deal the past year while I was healing.
I have been very happy all day about this accomplishment and the love I have received. 
But as the night is waning away, I am feeling quite humbled as I thing how I was able to make it through the night with myself in my hospital room, and a nursing ward too overworked to really understand my pleas for help. It took them a while for them to believe that my pain was at the very top of the pain chart.
The pain meds did not work, so I felt all the pain from the surgery. I had been given a full dose of morphine and it was doing absolutely nothing to help take away my physical pain. It took hours and hours for the morphine levels to drop so I could be given other pain meds that finally allowed me to sleep.
I remember praying that night so that I could make it through and not feel the pain so deeply. It worked, as usual. Prayers are always answered.
This whole experience showed me that I am capable of so much with help from my Heavenly Father.
