Thanks, Keith....
The "alone" part wasn't so much a lament, as an explanation... a few have shared their experiences and recommended a different path, as it were. Perhaps I took the coward's way out, avoid full surgical removal, but I didn't want to try to navigate the recovery without assistance--ie physical help in the here and now...
I appreciate your sentiments and the reality that, indeed,I'm surely not ALONE and I'm trying very hard to lay this down and accept whatever is to be.
Sure, I'm hoping for another 15 years without complications, but it's not my choice, is it? Whatever will be--will be...God's will, not mine...
I appreciate the prayers... I surely do and have seen much happen that is beyond human understanding, especially here thru this forum... so I covet and appreciate the prayers of each and everyone and not all who offer prayers post their doing so...
So thanks to those who share via posts and those who just pray quietly...
THANK YOU ALL!