Good morning to you all! (Tons of typos in this post, I am aware but running behind and need to jump in the shower!) I spent Sunday through Thursday in Dallas celebrating my daughter Tess. Due to the leg brace, I flew first class. Okay, I flew Southwest. So you get that’s a joke, right? But I was able to sit in the front row so I could keep my leg straight. We had such a great time. We spent a lot of time wedding planning. Tess pushed me around Hobby lobby in a wheelchair. I drove the electric car through Michaels. We had great girl chat. We were successful and accomplished lots of wedding planning for the reception. I got to see the event space for the reception and it is even better than I imagined it would be. This visit was one of the first times since all […]
Category: Recovery
So Much in My Head…..
I have all this stuff in my head that I wanna say, so I’m just going to start talking. I’m blogging via voice on my phone so seriously…… I’m just going to babble on about what’s been happening over here, then do a baby edit. Please expect errors and babbling…. First, lets enjoy the pics of these two!! I finally can share these two engagement photos!! Yay! This is my daughter Tess and her fiancé Manuel. They will be married March 30, 2019 and this momma can hardly wait! I had a couple of pics from their engagement party, but nothing this beautiful, so I’ll just share these. So sweet. I can’t pick a favorite, but I love both of these for certain!! Monday I went in for my physical therapy on my breast. Every appointment, Dani (she is awesome!) basically kneads my scar tissue/fat necrosis with this hard plastic […]
Feeling in Control of Me
It feels so great to be back in a routine and to feel so in control of life. I have noticed that over the years as a WW member, when I track my food and I take the time to meal plan, I feel so in control. Feeling in control of my food, for some reason makes me feel so much more control in every aspect of my life. Things feel really good right now. Yesterday was another full day, just the way I like it. I got in a great walk at a park by my moms house. I spent a good part of the day with my mom, having lunch together and taking her to the doctor. I worked at a great WW meeting last night. WW meetings are always great really. I got caught up on the TV show Rise. Anyone watching?? I hadn’t been to this […]
Total Transparency
Happy Friday to you all! I keep trying to write a blog post to completely catch up from my last post, then it turns into this long boring post. My need to feel completely caught up is a total OCD thing that I have about blogging! lol I’ve decided to keep this simple and get to the point. You’re welcome. Besides, it’s almost 10:00 pm and I’m pooped! This has been a great week! I went back to working at WW meetings, I have tracked my food and counted points, I have walked and stretched every day since Monday while tracking my steps on my fitbit, and today I went to my Weight Watcher meeting! I’m feeling very appreciative of this life that I have. I’m even planning meals and cooking! Do you dance when you make your meatloaf? Well, you should. By the way, this is my new favorite Target […]
It’s All Good!
On Monday, I had a post-op appointment with the Plastic Surgeon. This is my sweet Becky. When I say I took a walk with Becky, it’s this chick. I’m really looking forward to our walks this Spring and Summer! She drove me to my appointment since I hadn’t been released from the gyno to drive just yet. Everything is healing nicely and I should be able to go binder free after two more weeks! The binder is super uncomfortable, but it helps the body to contour, so I’ll keep wearing it knowing it’s helping me have a good shape! After my diagnosis, my breast surgeon had me stop taking the birth control pill. I had taken it for years for the hormones. I was a nervous wreck to not take it for fear that my mood would be all over the place. I stopped taking it several years ago […]
Rebirth? Kinda Feels Like It
I’m not even kidding. I woke up Easter morning and thought to myself, He’s alive and so am I! A little feeling of “Rebirth” with my pal Jesus if you will. I was looking forward to an Easter tradition and I was feeling rested and good. Mike and I spend Easter with his side of the family almost every year. At least, I don’t feel like we’ve missed too many years of this tradition. Mike’s mom is one of nine children (three girls, six boys) and every Easter the entire family (four generations now, unless it’s five and I’m missing that?) gathers for a Pot Luck. It’s always fun to see the family continue to grow with new babies and new fiancés and watch the little ones fill their baskets after dinner. This is Mike’s mom on the far right. These are her two beautiful sisters. Mike’s mom is going to be 80 […]
Finally Feeling Cancer Free
July 21st, Breast Cancer Diagnosis. Surgery 1. August 31st, Double Mastectomy. Surgery 2. December 14th, Died Flap Breast Reconstruction. Surgery 3. March 21st, Total Hysterectomy and Breast Revisions. That’s three surgeries with six weeks each of recovery. That’s like four months of recovery and healing! I still have some breast revisions (just touch ups), but they will be minor and they will be outpatient. These revisions are no surprise as they were expected as a part of the DIEP flap breast reconstruction process. It’s a complicated breast reconstruction, but I knew that going into it. These revisions will not require me to take any time off work, other than maybe a day or two, but taking 6 weeks off after a surgery is now OVER! I had my last big surgery on Wednesday, March 21st, and came home the following day. My daughter Tess came in from Dallas for a week […]
Good Morning!
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 […]
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 […]