We woke up this morning with chest tubes still in, feeling better but still uncomfortable, and a lot of unknown still to come. They turned off the suction on the chest tubes early in the morning, but left them in to wait and see. We went through the morning and the early afternoon just kind of waiting and having countless teams of doctors, residents, nurses, NPs, PAs, and all coming through the room.

Then, mid-afternoon I got a call from the surgeon. He had left for the day but wanted to talk to me directly to let me know his update. (1) chest tubes can come out! (2) If she's feeling better and stable a few hours after that, we could go home! (And we did, I'm writing this from home where we all 3 are settling back in). (3) the very best thing he told us? The pathology results came back earlier than expected and they are ALL CLEAR! None were tumors. No chemotherapy. No every -six-month major surgery. No constant fear of the next thing. Truly, the best news we could hope for. 

Annika still has some fairly serious recovery from surgery. She's a trooper but it was a big surgery. She's got 2 big fresh new scars too! Chris and I got a crash course in changing dressings from where the tubes were. We have to watch her very closely over the next couple of weeks. She won't be power lifting with her wrestling team just yet. And we will still need to do semi-annual scans. She still has the dicer1 syndrome. But once again we are in a place with the best possible outcome and have witnessed prayers move mountains.

Thank you for your constant love, support, prayers, and positivity. I'll keep saying it, it makes all of the difference in the world. 

Much love.