Archive for the ‘breast cancer’ Category
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It’s been a while
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
You know I keep thinking I need to update this blog more regularly but by the time I get home from work I am just way too tired to deal with it. Who would have thought that a mastectomy would take so much out of a person. I have taken to walking in the mornings [...]
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Sleep in spite of the storm
Monday, May 3rd, 2010
Last night it poured we had quite a storm and I believe I probably woke up every hour yet for some reason I got some sleep in spite of the storm. I actually feel rested this morning I could however keep sleeping for a bout another 6 hours. But however the job calls and one [...]
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Update
Saturday, April 17th, 2010
The latest and greastest on the drain situation is the drain had to come out and after it did they still removed over 40cc from another area that the drain was not touching. In addition to that the following day I had to go back and get another 30cc off the same area only this [...]
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Inspite of everything going wrong
Sunday, April 11th, 2010
Inspite of everything going wrong with the pen rose drain and still having to go to the dr every week, My God is faithful to keep me in the Palm of His Hand. The hands that created heaven and earth have held me close thru all I have been thru since being diagnosed with Breast [...]
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Things not going as planned
Saturday, April 10th, 2010
So how come things seem to not go as we thought they should? I thought as soon as I had the mastectomy and got thru the recovery period it going to be finished. Unfortunately that has not been the case. I had to still go get the mastectomy site drained every week because the drain [...]
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So things have changed
Saturday, March 27th, 2010
On Monday I will be going to the surgeon to get a rose pin drain put in to hopefully end the having to go and get the mastectomy site drained by needle every week so the remainder of the skin attaches to the chest wall. I am not sure which will be worse an open [...]
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Yet another Scan
Monday, February 1st, 2010
So they want to do yet one more scan. Ugghhhh I am so over scans trust me on this one. So I had it for Wednesday but I forgot they changed my work schedule to earlier so I have changed it to Thursday. I am really not in the mood for one more scan to [...]
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Vitamins Supplements, Religion vs Faith
Monday, January 25th, 2010
This morning I was looking at all the vitamins and supplements that one has to take to recover from a mastectomy and get on the road to preventing cancer in the future. There is so much information out there to weed thru and figure out what is just a quack theory and what is not. [...]
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Back to Work
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Today I returned to work I had been out 5 weeks for the mastectomy and recouperation and I am happy to say today went excellent. I have apparently healed just right and have rested enough that I can honestly say I did not get tired and am feeling truly blessed. The past 2 months of [...]
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Spent most of the day doing research
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
I spent most of the day doing online research to find out as much as I can on my other options outside of Chemo. I have to be honest here I am not leaning towards chemo however I will hear out the medical oncologist next week and have a list already going to take with [...]