Surgery Surprise!
No one ever said breast cancer was easy. I remembered late Monday night that I had a follow up appointment today to my appointment last week related to my surgical wound opening back up and looking infected. The wound had been looking a lot better this week, so I didn’t think about it too hard when I drove myself to my appointment. The surgeon looked at it my incision and the wound had opened up even more, again, which was...
Third Time’s the Charm
I got to sleep in a teensy bit before my appointment today. My breast that has the issues with the incision had some funny red marks on it and a purple spot where the gauze must have dug into my skin – so it was looking a little funky this morning which got me pretty stressed out, not that I haven’t already been stressed out this week as it is. The red marks were definitely from the tape yesterday (I was changing my gauze...
Fevers and Races
The breast cancer adventure continues this week. Yesterday I had a pretty bad headache all day and realized that I should check my temperature when I got home from work. I came in at 99.6. I definitely had a fever, but a low grade one which could be caused by just about anything. Paired with that was the fact that the area around my stitches had graduated from happy normal skin to red and mad skin. The fever stuck around until mid...
Chemo Numero Dos
Something about going to chemo makes me nervous. I am not sure if it is the worry about how I will feel for the next few days or the fact that my hair is gone for certain very soon. I don’t sleep well the night before I go in, but I am really not sure what I am worrying about. The experience of being in the infusion room isn’t too bad, the nurses are the friendliest bunch ever, most of the patients sleep, and I just sit on...
Adventures in the Dark at Huntsman
Mike and I got up super early to head up to the Huntsman Cancer Institute to get me closed up before the day’s appointments began. We were up there before 7 AM. Once we got placed in the procedure room the lights went out everywhere. My initial reaction was that it was just my luck that they wouldn’t be able to do it (after 4 days of stressing and worrying and waiting). Vicki the surgical nurse came in and discovered that...
I am Holey
The wound that was supposed to possibly heal a bit slower turned into an outright hole instead. My breast went ahead and opened up where the sore was, unfortunately it opened up all of the way to the tissue that the breast expander is in (essentially open all of the way through). I managed to get in to see the nurse this morning and they were able to get the plastic surgeon to look at it. Chemo can essentially halt the healing...