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January 22, 2010 Surgery

Posted by Sarah Miller on Friday, February 19, 2010, In : Pastor Bub's Cancer News 

Pastor Bub is ready for one last surgery (Lord willing).  This is Step 2 in a two surgery process to reverse the ostomy.  He will be under Dr. Clingan's care at St. John's hospital in Tulsa.  This will be a much less invasive procedure than the other surgeries and Pastor Bub should be out of the hospital in aobut 3 days.

After 15 months as a "colostomate", I can't tell you how excited he is to be back to "normal"! 


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Nov. 13th: Final plans for Bub's ostomy reversal

Posted by Sarah Miller on Tuesday, January 5, 2010, In : Pastor Bub's Cancer News 
Well, December 14 is the day! We will go in for surgery to repair the colostomy on Bub. The surgery will be at St. John's in Tulsa.

Here are the details: Because of the risks involved, this will be a 2 surgery process. Surgery 1 will be quite involved and could take up to 6 hours to complete. In order to complete this safely, a Urologist Surgeon will also attend the operation and place stints in the Kidneys. This will help our surgeon feel them during surgery and hopefully help avoid any dama...
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Pastor Bub's December 14 Surgery Results

Posted by Sarah Miller on Tuesday, January 5, 2010, In : Pastor Bub's Cancer News 
Bub went in Dec. 14th for step 1 in the reversal of his colostomy. To sum it up quickly - everything was successful! Surgery took 5 and a half hours, so it was quite a lengthy process. But, he only had to stay in the hospital 5 days! We were so thankful for this! He is home and recovering slowly, but steadily. We did have a small area that abcessed in the incision, but it is looking really good.

After everything we have been through - this has been remarkably "easy"! This surgery was really a...
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Sarah Miller Hi! I'm Pastor Miller's wife! I get to be in charge of blogging, since my husband is "uncomfortable" with the computer... So, from time to time, you'll see posts here from me, and sometimes posts from Pastor. We'll let you know who's doing the writing! I am a 32 year old mother of 4 kids. Our oldest 3 kids are biological, and we adopted our 4th. I graduated from Evangel University in Springfield, Mo in 2000 with a degree in Special Education. I have been a full time wife and mom, however, for the past 8 years.