Semanas 53 - 54: 1-Year Mark and Surgery

 ¡Hola a todos!


Here's my update from the past two weeks!

Highlights:
  • Got to go to the Denver Temple last week! There's no temple in the Resistencia mission so it was super nice to go back and visit the house of the Lord
  • I hit a year as a set apart missionary this week! Kind of weird to hit a year sitting in my house waiting to get surgery, but it is what it is. I'm just super excited for the year to come!
  • Week 53 was a confusing week, I visited lots of different doctors who had lots of different opinions of what was going on with me. Some said that I definitely had a hernia, some said that I had inflamed lymph nodes, and some said there wasn't actually anything wrong with me at all... so I had a fun time gaslighting myself into believing that there wasn't anything wrong with me, even though I was still in pain. This continued up until last Tuesday , when I went in to see the surgeon who finally agreed to operate on me to fix up the hernia!
  • That week I also got two ultrasounds and one CAT Scan that all had different results as to what was wrong with me, which was super confusing
  • After getting my surgery confirmed on Tuesday I was able to go into surgery on Thursday, which was super lucky that I was able to get in so fast. I had to wake up at 4 am for a 7 am operation, but it was over within an hour and recovery has been pretty easy! Just kind of feels like getting stabbed in the stomach
I'll be heading back to Argentina as soon as recovery will allow me, I'm just not sure when that will be! Just make sure to check in, say hi, and let me know how you're doing!

Elder Johnson

1. Denver Temple
2. Ring ring... it's the surgery phone
3. Pre-Operation



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