Breast News I Have Had All Week
I had my two week post operative “Surgery Surprise” visit with the plastic surgeon today. I honestly tried to have very little expectations about the visit as I just haven’t a clue on how to gauge the progress since the surgery, nor have I ventured to guess after so many ups and downs since my bilateral mastectomy. Mike even came with me to my appointment today due to my last appointment developing into an unexpected...
Telling the Red Devil Goodbye
My little brother Dereck was my chemo buddy volunteer this week. I wanted to get something to eat before I started chemo, so we went and got sandwiches and salad at a cute little cafe downtown that Dereck recommended. I had a delicious cheesy melty panini of happiness and a green salad. With full tummies we headed up to the Huntsman Cancer Institute for my appointments. We were a little early, but they went ahead and brought me back...
Banana Bread
I am baking! Ok, it is totally possible to bake bread, in a bread maker, using mostly only your left hand. I had some bananas that wanted to be made into banana nut bread (they told me). Great… now fruit is talking to me…and you thought cancer was the worst of my problems! My poor body, you would think it has been through enough already. They forget to tell you that there is a significant difference between staying two...
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...
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...