Poked and Prodded
Sorry for the delay, I am pretty drained after 6 hours at Huntsman Cancer Institute. Needing to be there at 10:30 I figured I would be out in time to eat a late lunch which turned out not to be the case. Luckily there are kind volunteers with juice and snacks that go around. They seem to know you are in for a long day, we just didn’t quite know that. From today, this is what I know: At this time I have a double mastectomy...
Pre-Appointment Jitters
It seems that a lot of women have frequently had their surgery within a week of discovering that they had breast cancer, it has been two weeks for me now so I have had plenty of time to think about it (maybe too much time). The anxiety of it all finally got to me today so I ran errands for several hours to work off some steam (no spa, no exercise, apparently I use errands to run off steam). Part of the reason is because the errands...
Researching Breast Reconstruction
****Public Service Announcement – This one may not be for the squeamish**** Now that I can start to look at my options a bit more closely without being nearly as traumatized. I started to take the time to learn about breast reconstruction related to breast cancer (of course a variety of items with the type of surgery you choose – but I don’t think it hurts to know what the options look like). The first couple of...
A Taste of Normal
After a crazy and hectic work day Friday (sometimes you truly have those “everything that could go wrong really did go wrong” days) Mike and I got gussied up for a hoedown or something like that. His work has a dressy event every January and this year had a cowboy theme. We got dressed up and rustled up some grub. It was nice seeing Mike’s coworkers and being out and about. I’ll update this post once I get my...
It Takes a Village
It takes a village to keep Mandi from working on a bathroom it seems. Not that I am complaining that someone else is willing to battle the fight that is concrete backer board. I was told that my task for this evening is to sit on my butt and do nothing, hrm, not working so well. Thus why I am tip tapping on the laptop watching the drama that is backer board. We had to get the thicker stuff because a genius plumber opted to put the...