..of my life. That the results from my resent mastectomy would show that no cancer was left and I could go on happily with my life, knowing that the scheduled radiation was merely an extra precaution to ease the soul.
But of course that would be entirely too easy and nothing this year seems to be easy.
As any good story, I guess, this also needs a bit of aggravating thrill, just to make sure you as the ‘reader’ is sitting on the edge of your chair in anticipation of the new development in the story.
The bummer, in my eyes, is of course, that this is my story and not someone else’s.
Are you annoyed yet? Are you ready to slap me over the head while hissing at me: “Tell me the result already!” 😉
OK, so yesterday (8 days after my surgery) I went to my check up with my surgeon. She was really pleased with my healing, my skin was looking really good and after giving her a little puppy dog look, she removed both my drains.
Having your drains removed, is a very unique experience, it doesn’t hurt but feels like what I would imagine it would feel like having your intestine pulled out, if you could do that painlessly, that is. It was enough to get my gag reflex going. But OH, the freedom without them is wonderful, there is less pain with my movements now. Actually I’m amazed at how fast I’m recuperating. I’m not taking any pain med’s (Yeah! because they made my head all woozy) and though my movements are still restricted, I can do most day to day things, as long it doesn’t require any lifting.
Hmmm, I guess I can’t drag it out any longer 😉
As I’m sure you’ve already deduced, the chemo treatment haven’t been as effective as we were hoping, they really meant it when they called it an aggressive type of cancer.
The lumps were lessened yet still 2,8 cm and 1,5 cm, but their edges were well defined, nothing blurry as in the beginning.
20 lymph notes were removed from my right armpit and 11 of them were infected and not just 3 as we thought earlier.
The million $ question is now: “Did they get it all???” I fricking hope so!!! I really don’t care for the suspense.
The plan now is to get a PET/CT scan and I think also a MRI scan on Tuesday (Nov. 20th). My surgeon said she’d let my oncologist decide if I would also get a brain scan, but I’m going to insist on that! If not for any other reason than to figure out why I’m still plagued by dizzy spells.
Actually the week we spend on Maui, just before the operation, lessened the dizziness but it has returned to it’s unpleasant stage again. I wonder if I can get a prescription for a stay in Hawaii, wouldn’t that be nice 🙂
In case you were wondering and haven’t seen all the pictures on Facebook, we had an absolutely wonderfully relaxing trip.
I hope you’re all having a great weekend. I’m blessed with beautiful friends that take the kids off my hands to give me a breather, I truly enjoy the quiet when I get it, though I’d miss their happy babble if the quiet went on too long.
Judith Thomasberg 