As many of you know I had my colon removed on January 23 because my bowels had shut down. The past year has been extremely hard for me. I stayed super sick, and was looking forward to this surgery because I knew after recovery I would start to feel better. Going into this I knew it was going to be tough, but had no idea that when this began how hard things were actually going to be. I am glad I didn’t because if I had known everything that was going to happen I wouldn’t have entered into this so easily. Following surgery , I stayed in the hospital for five days. However, things did not go well when I returned home. After being home for one day I became extremely sick and had to go back to the hospital where I was told that my intestines had not woken up yet. Nothing was working. This was the start of some long and difficult weeks. During this time, I was fighting for my life. There were several times we thought I wouldn’t make it but the Lord’s grace and strength kept me going. Two weeks into the hospital stay we thought things were improving but then things took a turn for the worse. I started having terrible pain that I have never experienced before and we soon found out that this pain was being caused by two blockages. On February 18, I had another surgery to remove the blockages and was told my small intestine was in the shape of a pretzel. Thankfully, following the second surgery I slowly began to improve, and was finally able to return home on March 3. That was such a beautiful day for me because for a while I thought I would never see home again.