Just checking in to say Good Morning! I’m one week post op a full hysterectomy and revisions on my breast reconstruction. Other than feeling tired, I’m doing great! After reading so much about these two surgeries combined, I was prepared to be in a lot of pain for the first week, and I haven’t been at all! Yay! Tess came in the day before surgery and stayed with us for a week. She just went home on Tuesday and it was hard to let her go. Tess and Mike have become this great team when it comes to taking care of Mom and I’m not sure what I would do without them. I was feeling so good 4 days after surgery, that I even went to Palm Sunday at my In-Laws! (Our annual tradition so our kids and grandkids don’t have to stress on Easter trying to visit everyone) I […]
Month: March 2018
I’m Almost There
Hi Friends and Welcome New Readers! Thank you to Prevention Magazine for featuring my blog on their website and bringing me some new friends! They did a small feature about my blog in the magazine last Fall, then recently asked if they could share my blog online. Um….YES! I first feel like I should apologize to my new subscribers for not being the Weight Watcher blog you signed up to follow. However, I will be back to Weight Watcher blogging very soon! For now, I’m focusing on this dumb breast cancer and getting my body back. (Please make self breast exams a part of your monthly routine. Six months after a 3D mammogram, I found my lump and had it checked out!) Tomorrow I will be having my third surgery. I will be having a full hysterectomy and my new breast will be having a few revisions. After surgery, I’m on […]
Where Have I Been?
I kind of fell apart. Since finding out that I had an Iliac Aneurysm a few weeks ago (an aneurysm located in the abdomen) I let my mind go to the worst place that it could have gone. All that I could think about were the drastic measures that I had taken after my breast cancer diagnosis. Have a Double Mastectomy. No Implants! Go through a 10 hour surgery, have my entire torso cut open and have my belly fat transferred to my breast area and make new breast. Schedule a hysterectomy to remove Ovaries since my Breast Cancer is estrogen positive and eliminate the ovaries to eliminate any extra estrogen and to eliminate the chance of Ovarian Cancer since it runs in my family. Take my Uterus too. One of the drugs that I will now be taking to reduce the risk of a Breast Cancer reoccurrence can cause […]