January 2014 Surgery Sisters
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Hi all,
I was just reading through some old posts. WE have all come a long way! Such a litany of honest, deep. funny, lovely, tributes to strong, beautiful and sometimes scared women. We truly are a force to contend with.
Ann, I was looking for your post in particular about your daughter leaving for college. I didn't respond....and I wanted too. I have been there where I have had to let my boys go. In a way it is a relief to know they are on their way to becoming adults, but on the other hand it is the hardest thing for a mom to do. Your daughter has had you as a mom and I KNOW she will be a star. As you are. Trust me when I say, they will always come home. My sons do. and the love you have given your daughter will come back 10 fold.
I get that from my sons...it is amazing and worth letting them go...for a little while....
love you Ann
Eve
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Diane, my friend
your mom is/was BEEEEUtiful..hmmmm you look a lot like her.
Hope you are healing well and the pain is subsiding....only one more day before you can shower.....how fab is that?
love to all
E
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Thanks Eve. Mom is only 20 years older, so when we were in our 20-40 years, people often thought we were sisters.
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Hey ladies. I haven't posted much because I feel like a whiner. Everyone makes hysterectomy, especially laparascopic, sound like such a not big deal.... but it's been a big deal for me. I'm a little over a week post-op and everything still hurts! It's not a concentrated pain like the BMX where my front and sides hurt. This is just EVERYTHING inside got smooshed around and I'm just so uncomfortable. My digestive system is totally out of whack, between the surgery and the pain pills causing constipation and the stool softeners and the miralax to get things going.... every time I stand up I have to hunch over until the pain is gone. Ugh. I realize I had surgery, but I really thought I would feel better than this by now.
Hmph. Anyway, I try to get out & move around a bit every day, but I'm still taking pain pills (one or two a day) so I can't drive.
My kids go back to school on Monday so I guess Hubby is going to have to drive them until I can. I probably could drive if I *had* to, but try telling him that. LOL
Hope everyone is well. Sorry to be such a downer. I'm just sick of being so uncomfortable, and I'm missing my dad. He's been moved to rehab and seems to be doing well, but I wish I lived closer to I could visit him and tell him I love him. <sigh>
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Michelle: You are not a whiner by anyone's standards! Yes, laparoscopic surgery is less invasive, but you basically ran a marathon battle with BC between BMX, radiation and chemo before your surgery, so you just need more time. If you look back at the posts in January, we were all whining and talking about constipation, pain and inabilibty to sleep...I was in the ER twice getting rotorootered. We ALL understand and this is the best place ever to vent and seek support. You need to heal. Your husband can take over for now. Know that we're all here for you, holding your hand.
So glad your dad is doing well enough for rehab. He must be pretty tough. Maybe you can you text or Skype with him? I'm texting my friend in the ICU. She had surgery this morning, following pneumonia for removal of 3 clots in her lungs. She still needs our prayers, but things are looking better.
I know how you feel. My son starts middle school next week and I'm not sure he'll want me there unless I can hide my bandages under a big jacket. They don't come off until later that afternoon at my postop appointment. At least my doctor did release me to drive Monday.
Hang in there. It will get better!
Love and hugs,
Diane.
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Oh! Thank you, Eve. Your post comes at just the right time. We drop our daughter of at her dorm today! I am so excited for her and keep reminding myself that I while I will miss her terribly this is exactly where she needs to be. I had a wonderful college experience and want the same for her. It has been so great to see the kids stop by this past week to say their goodbyes. Bittersweet for me as the house will be sooooo quiet but as I told my DD she should feel very good about the impact she made on so many others that they made a special trip to say goodbye, deliver care packages, cards, good wishes. She has a lovely set of friends.
This will be an emotional week for me. We become official empty nesters today so DH and I will have to find our new normal not worrying about shuttling kids, announcing soccer games, having extra kids for dinner,etc. Tuesday is my last chemo treatment and while I am happy about finishing it up and getting my taste buds back and ability to focus on making my body strong again I am already thinking, "what's next". I have to find my new normal, too.
Michelle, have been thinking of you and your young friend in hospice. This disease just sucks and is so unfair especially to the young. I have two young women in my group at work, one is pregnant and going through chemo now and the other has mets to the brain. Both with young kids. As much as I complain about my own diagnosis there are so many that need my prayers more. This is why we need $$ going toward research for a cure more and awareness less. Wishing you less pain this week, too.
Marissa, I hope you are feeling better. I might need you to go spy on my daughter for me. I can give you her dorm room #, lol! You can't be far away
Diane, whether you used the sword or not I do like my mental image of you, warrior woman, with your sword in the air, swooshing at anything that gets in your way. Love it. I also understand your dilemma with your mom. My dad turns 75 in 3 weeks. I am fortunate that he lives in the same town as me so we should be able to get together. His birthday is on a Friday and my sister and I told him we would celebrate that Sunday. Feeling a little guilty and selfish about not celebrating on the day because I have a wedding to attend that evening and my sister has one the following day. Your mom will understand you can't make the trip just yet. She looks so strong and beautiful just like you.
Mary, your mom is exactly where she needs to be and even if she can't tell you, I have no doubt in her heart she appreciates your love every single day.
Love to all on this beautiful Sunday morning.
Ann
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Good morning Ann - wide awake since we had a little 6.0 earthquake about a half hour ago. Just enough to make me jump out of bed and wish my son was home with me, and not at his dad's. Hilarious FB posts by my friends though.
I'll be thinking about you Tuesday. I have a feeling things will become clearer as you step out from the chemo fog and you start getting some strength back. You will be unstoppable. Yes, you still have the exchange to go, but truly that won't be any big deal. I feel like we all have to find our own new normal, or that place of comfort within which we can reconcile what happened to us, how we can support those who were less fortunate, and how it will affect our lives moving forward. I plan to be much more open with my heart.
Love you all!
Diane
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Michelle,
I don't go by the anticipated times to heal anymore!!! I'm 8 weeks out after abdominal hysterectomy this Tuesday and I still have pain and have to stand for a minute when I get up to adjust to the pain! Don't beat yourself up! You will get there and so will I. I go back to work tomorrow and I'm so nervous about being up and about for 8 hours with 19 kindergarteners!!! I just got my picc line out on Friday after yelling at the pa that it NEEDS to come out I go back to work Monday d my superintendent wouldn't let me go back unless 100%. I'm hoping the infection doesn't come back, my incision doesn't re open etc etc!!
This flipping diagnosis has turned my life and everyone else's upside down. I'm trying to find my new me... And being accepting of myself, scars, uneven boobs without nipples and all. No one that hasn't been through it understands it... I'm glad we have this forum to help one another
Stay strong my friend, you'll get there as will I
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Michelle, telling us what is going on with you is not whining! I try to not whine also, but sometimes you have to let it out. If you are not posting because you feel like crap, well, please post away. We are all here for each other....got it!
Also best wishes for your dad.Ann, letting go is hard, but just you wait lady, when your kids come home after having to be totally responsible for themselves.....they are just a bundle of love and will tell you how much they appreciate you....it is fun! Yay! to one more chemo treatment.
I am with Beverly on the "designated time for healing". My foobs still get zingers. Hmph! indeed. have a great day tomorrow Bev.
Diane, so glad the earthquake was far enough away. I remember as a kid living on top of the San Andreas fault in San Jose and feeling the ground shake, it's like hurricanes here, you get used to it. Too bad all those bottles of merlot were broken. ;(
You are trying to be more open with your heart, cancer has made me to not be so afraid. Might get me in trouble someday but so be it. For the past 2 weeks I have seen this jerk drive (haul A$$) down my block at 40 mph. The speed limit is 10mph. We have a lot of kids and older people on their motorized wheel chairs. Sooooo yesterday he sped down the street again, stopped at the end of the block, turned around and was coming back. I had had it! I actually walked out into the middle of the street and made him stop. I told him he needed to slow the heck down....whoa! he was po'd. he told me to stop talking to him as if he was a little kid ( must have been 55yo) I told him if he would stop driving like a little kid I would stop treating him like one. nate came out...which was a good thing....this guy was a little runt, and Nate is not!....So he took off and I got his license plate number and reported him to our gate house people. maybe he will be banned from getting in. We'll see.
maybe, I'd better get my black belt....
love you guys,
Eve
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Wow Eve! Did you read the World According to Garp? I'm picturing you channeling Robin Williams and his epic scene chasing down a crazy neighborhood driver. Your heart is in the right place, but be careful dear, especially with people in cars...you know why.
Beverly I know you will do fine because you have to. We find reserves we didn't know we had when it matters. I imagine you will be exhausted, especially for the first week, but then as if by magic, it will stop being exhausting and you will remember why you wanted to teach in the first place. I know, because this was how it was when I went back to work and training. Just keep showing up.
Anyone heard from Laurie? She has been on my mind lately.
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Michelle-glad you are improving, even at a slow rate. If you think of it logically, your entire abdomen (and then some) has been pushed around and re situated in a different home. And it's not even like they all moved together- some close friends who used to be right there didn't make the move. They didn't ask for this- they were quite happy the way they were. They probably weren't totally surprised though- something above them went thru the same kind of thing a few months ago- and they don't even recognize the new foobs where the old boobs used to be. Add to that, they were all fed some pretty nasty stuff for months on end, that made it impossible to even taste things that they used to like.
I know my body is slow to adjust to all the changes going on. Especially since ever time you've gone back to the new but familiar you- you throw another major disruption at it.
I know my body is still reacting in new ways. I will have a few days of thinking it am back to as close to normal as I am going to get, then I wake up and can hardly move. And I have aches and pains unlike any I have had before in areas I never thought could be painful- like my chest under my arm.
This journey we are on is not easy, but we are moving along. Just think back a few months and you will realize just how far we have come. Share your whining with us- everyone of us had had her own version of what you are going through.
A silver lining is always around the corner
Hope your dad is continuing to improve and that you can Skype or FaceTime him soon. You will both feel better. Good luck to the kids as they head back to school.
Anne
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Happy Monday!
Thanks, Ann, for your kind words. I started to tear up while reading it. I'm very emotional these days. I think I saved it all up for the end.
Physically I'm doing pretty good. Only bad thing is that I can't sleep on my good side anymore. I've got pain and swelling in my armpit - maybe referred pain from where they injected fat? I'll have it checked out with my new MO on the 3rd. In the meantime, I refuse to worry. Had fun Saturday night with all the in-laws, believe it or not - cookout, campfire and lots of silliness.
Eve be careful out there. You never know who will go nuts and pull out a gun. Stranger things have happened.
On healing, etc. I don't get zingers, but lately my nipples have been hurting. Funny thing is....I don't have nipples anymore!
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Mary the period like achiness could be from the Aromasin, just a thought.
Diane , how are things looking? I bet you can't wait for that real shower. ahhhhhhhh
Beverly, hope all was fab today with the little ones, bet you are tired.
Loved your post Anne.....
Ok ladies, here is the gig with the bad people. That means people that refuse to obey the law. At some point that driver would have hit a little kid or a senior or someone's beloved pet. I will tell you that yesterday and today people are driving veeeeerrrry slowly down the street
. I realize someone could have a gun....well, hmmmmmmm so do I. I have a 9mm hand gun. It is locked and loaded. I have taken classes on the use of the gun and on gun laws. To be honest the first time I shot it at the range, with my expert shot Marine in tow, it scared the heck out of me. It is not something I ever wanted to own, but after having been broken into 3 times, while we were asleep, we got the dog and a gun. I also have a Taser and pepper spray. I will be working towards obtaining a concealed weapons permit very soon. I know for some it sounds pretty radical, but if the bad guys appear with a gun then a kind word or baseball bat won't stop them. In class the teachers don't ever advocate using a gun, ever! But if you have to...then so be it. They tell you , drum it into your head actually, that using a gun in self defense will change your life forever. And not in a good way except that you might be the one that saves a theater full of people, your family and friends. So I continue to use the virtual range and live fire range, yes, you never know who may have a gun....but I know I do!E
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Hi Ladies: It was a very long day with the first day of school and my unveiling. I was pleasantly surprised. I was expecting a huge amount of bruising and grisly franken-nips. There was virtually no bruising on my lower abdomen where he did the lipo and only a tiny incision that is already healed below the bikini line. I do have some yellow bruising from the fat grafting but not much. Maybe all the exercise and increased blood circulation (or just being used to being kicked).
Anyway, the new nips look pretty good. When he took the bandages off they were protected with little plastic cones. Madonna and Nurse Ratchett came to mind, but I kept my jokes to myself. They are larger than my old ones, but my PS says that they will decrease in size, as does every other post I've read, so I'm thinking they will be just about right when they are done healing.
Eve - I did take that long awaited shower tonight and it felt divine.
Anyway, I get to do the same sort of drill as before with the BMX scars. Paint them with betadyne and put qauze on them. This time I cut holes in several layers for my nips and then cover them with a full layer on top to keep the pressure of a sports bra off them until next Tuesday, when the stiches come out. He said we would talk about how much I could do in the way of TKD then, which right now seems about right.
So Eve - It must have been terrifying to have someone break in at night...especially more than once. TKD is of no use if you are more than 6 feet from someone with a gun pointed at you. I'm glad you are taking steps to protect yourself. I can hear that you take the responsibility seriously.
Mary - I was having phantom nip pain too before my surgery. Soon I guess it will be actual pain in fake nipples...very confusing.
I'm exhausted, but have to go back to work tomorrow anyway. Crazy how little energy I have, but I don't know why I'm surprised, because it was like this the last time too. The only thing that helps is to keep doing a little more each day. High Ho, High Ho....blah, blah, blah.
Zzzzzzzzzzz
DIane.
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Diane - glad to hear things are going as
planned! I've also been thinking of Laurie. Hope she's doing alright and not posting because she's just busy with having a somewhat "normal" life.I was cleared by my NP to wear a regular bra or go without, although my PS said I should wear one. I don't mind. I've been living in sports bras and camisoles 24/7 for quite some time and it actually feels better to have something on. I need to check out
my insurance and see if they cover anything besides the usual post surgical
bras. All I have right now are sports bras and I'm looking forward to wearing something else. I know some of you are going commando, but I need more support for the new girls.I've been checking out the Bras 101: The Great Post-Exchange Debate thread. I love the styles they've posted, but can't spend too much right now. I'll have to start a wish list.
Congrats, Beverly, on starting back to school! Hope you have a good first week!
Hope everyone else is doing okay.
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Hey all,
Yes Diane very seriously and that's all I have to say on that subject.
Sounds as if you are pretty pleased with the unveiling...such a relief...almost done girl. Love the reference to Madonna, brunhilda comes to mind also. protect to new nips girl....I know with me it was touch and go for a few weeks, but all was well. Hope work was ok and david is finding the middle school experience fun, I know Danile likes changing classes. man they grow up fast.
Mary, you must have quite an assortment of under garments by now. I bet it feels wonderful to be less constricted and free.
I rarely wear a bra, and I love it, but I am pretty small....although the compression with the bra stops the zingers...maybe I'll try for a few hours a day?
You know Ann, I agree with you about time to send that money to the researchers to find a cure. I really don't think NFL players need to wear pink for a month. I am interested in the research where changing from a kill the cancer and make the patient feel like crap mentality is becoming a maintain the patient...ala diabetes. The genetic testing and micro approach....treating our cancers as an individual process really appeals to me. Hope you are at the end of treatment and....how many phone calls from your daughter so far?
gotta love 'em.
ttyl
Eve
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So tomorrows my official first day with the students! The last 2 days were professional development and then tonight we had open house. I thought everything was going good, I was feeling kinda like my old self then I came home to shower and noticed a damn stitch sticking out of my incision!!! Are u kidding?!?! What do I do? What and see if it opens again? Call ps? She would probably have me come in. I'd miss work, they'll question my health and being ready to return!!!! She said any more problems with incision it's another surgery to remove implant. Is this a problem? Could it still be ok with stitch coming out? Damn it!!!!!!!! I can't deal with this over and over and over again!!!
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Beverly - I have several places where the ends of stitches are sticking out - two where they injected fat and a couple on the ends of my incisions, but they seem to be tied well and are just kind of hanging there. They are supposed to dissolve eventually and then fall out. I sure hope yours don't cause a problem. Good luck tomorrow! Remember....You are strong - you can do this!
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Diane, I love that you had your nips done. I have yet to decide 3D tatoo vs nips. I'm leaning towards nips but feel like if I get them, I will have to start wearing a bra again. I love my new found freedom of no bras. Am I crazy? How long did you take off work?
Eve: your a gal with some serious spunk . Love it. I'm proud of you for standing up to reckless people. Just be careful girlfriend.
Ann: yes the students of MSU have arrived!! Grocery stores are out of everything, Target is over crowded... My brother in law (who works at MSU) told me that the freshman class is 7800 and that is smaller than a couple of yeas ago when it was 8200!! I hope your daughter transitions well; as you know, the school and city are awesome but if you need me to spy on her I will
Beverly , so sorry about the stitch. If it's not one thing or another..right?? I know that your work is demanding but I also have a feeling that this "stitch" will turn out to be something small. Call your PS. Since they know your situation maybe they can give you a time after your work hours?? Thinking of you; keep us posted.
Sweet dreams:)
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Beverly - I agree with Marissa. Call your PS, it may be nothing serious. Maybe you could just try to keep the area dry. I know it's a pain, but it seems like every time you shower something happens. Maybe just wash your hair in the sink for a few days and do the washcloth thing. Just an idea. Hang in there.
Marissa - I had them done because I'm single and just really wanted to get as close anatomically as possible to my old self (minus the sagging). My PS is really good and once the tattoos go on, they should be pretty good. We'll see what kind of projection I end up with when the swelling goes down. I think I'll still be able to go braless, just maybe not all the time.
I was off a week and a day. Stitches come out next Tuesday.Mary - Have fun bra shopping! It has to feel good to have some freedom.
Eve - David likes middle school so far, but did say that the first day was really stressful because there were just so many kids. I'm glad Daniel is happy. They are growing up so fast. I'm pretty sure we'll blink and they will be driving...yikes!
Long, sorta painful day at the office. So much to do and I was really sore after going through a box of plans that needed to get copied and off to the experts right away. Even though none of them were really heavy, it was just exhausting, but I got home early since David is with his dad, and after a few hours in my recliner, I'm feeling pretty good. This is pretty much how I felt after the exchange, so I expect that next week, I'll likely be feeling much better and itching to go back to TKD.
Guessing most of you are sleeping, but good night ladies!
Diane.
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Beverly, you sure have had a time of it. I had a few stitches come through during my BMX but my situation is different than yours. I didn't even notice them and the nurse just picke them out at my regular appointment. With your healing issues i agree with others you should call. Maybe you can send a picture and they can look at it to determine if it is ok for it to stay "as is" until your next appointment so you don't have to leave work. Hang in there, I am sure you will be exhausted today with all the kiddos returning. Remember, it will take time to get your stamina back, but, like others have said it will happen.
Diane, like Marissa, I will be following your nip journey carefully. I am still undecided for all the same reasons. Since my exchange is not until end of October I will take my time deciding and not do anything until 2015. I did fine on line that cure diva.com had some fake nips/areola that you can apply to the foobs. I am seriously thinking of purchasing a pair or two and seeing how I like them. I thought they might help me with placement of my permanent nips or tats, regardless.
Eve, you are one fearless, badass chick! Be careful, girl friend, and if you find yourself in a position of needing self defense your best weapons are your elbows to the face/neck area or knees to the groin. Hope you never have to use them but once you go for it you must fully commit. That little elbow can cause some serious pain!
Ok, drum roll please,.....I am officially PFC! Had my last treatment yesterday. Thanks you friends for helping me through this, especially Marissa, Michelle, Anne, who had been there before me. Your words of wisdom and just sharing your journey has helped me. I found yesterday to be highly emotional when I finished. my sister was with me and my onco nurse were all teary eyed. In fact tears are rolling down my eyes as I write this. My nurse warned me of this delayed reaction. I cannot believe how easy the tears come any more. If it is due to hormones I am in trouble. I start tamoxifen in a few weeks and I do worry that I may never get past this phase! Well, gotta pull myself together so my eyes aren't puffy than just the steroid and chemo. I have to kick off a global webcast at work with a live audience of 200 this morning. My eyes are already watery in the morning right now and I would like some of my eye make up to stay one:-)
Good day to you all,
Ann
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Congratulations Ann! That's awesome! And good luck with your webcast today. I'm sure you'll do great!
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Congratulations Ann!! Woohoo! So honored that you feel I helped you.
Like many of you, I have a GS starting middle school this year. He was so excited he didn't sleep at all the night before. He went from an elementary school with uniforms to a middle school without. He changed his mind about what he was going to wear about 5 times the day before, then changed twice the next morning before leaving - he decided his first choice didn't match his sneakers. His response to his first day was "Awesome" . I am so glad he has school to focus on while his parents are splitting up and Dad is moving out, kicking and screaming the whole way.
Anne
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That is just so cute when the little ones get excited about school!
My best friend's daughter had her 3rd baby boy this week. He is soooo adorable! One of these days I need to go out to San Diego for a visit. Her first born started Kindergarten and the middle one started preschool. My best friend is the one who died of breast cancer over 20 years ago. So sad she is not here to see her grandbabies. She would have been so proud!
Some bad news....
Mom fell during the night and hit her head on the nightstand. She was rushed to the hospital due to excessive bleeding. Tests didn't show anything wrong, thank goodness. They put staples in the wound and wrapped her head in a turban and sent her on her way. Today she was up walking around and denies any pain. She is one tough lady!
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Wow Mary - I'm so happy you Mom is okay. I guess we know now where you got your warrior spirit! My mom is turning 75 tomorrow and is coming over for a birthday dinner on Saturday. She is only 20 years older and in good shape, so I'm very lucky. Such beautiful kids! How can you doubt that life is wonderful when you look at those faces? Thanks for sharing them.
Ann - Singing the Happy song for you...I was a pretty serious singer in my younger years, and I can still belt it out when I want. Soooo very happy for you!!! I can picture you getting an assortment of stickers...and then giving them crazy names like your wigs! When my PS marked me he put stickers on and I went into the ladies room with the nurse to check them out "for aesthetics". They had little metal nips on the end. I moved them around and they ended up being right back where he put them. When they are all healed and I have my tattoos, I'm going to post my full set of all my photos (from BMX to the end) on the picture forum...probably around November/December. It's been a pretty amazing transition, but I think anyone going to the site for help needs to see the whole series, so they understand that while it does start out looking scary, it will get better. BTW - what is up with the tears. I didn't have chemo, but I can't seem to control myself anymore either.
Anne - So sorry your GS is having to deal with his parent's divorce, but it's great that he's loving school so far. We had homework meltdowns tonight, but I do think he's learning that getting started and doing things one step at a time works better than simply throwing yourself on the bad wailing about it. Poof...as if by magic, what was deem impossible was somehow finished. My guess is that we'll be repeating this ritual over an over, but he'll eventually learn, because I did.
Better day at work today both pain and energy-wise.
Beverly, I hope you made it through okay. I know that first day makes you think you can't do it and all you want to do is cry (yes, me too), but I promise it will get easier each day.
Love and hugs,
Diane.
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Well, I had a stitch popping through that started on Wednesday I think. Last night after my shower, noticed yet another flipping hole in the incision!!!! Smaller than last time and I can't see the implant, just that it's open!!! I have my appointment tomorrow we will see what the ps says. Problem is that when I shower it opens and then it closes... So when I shower tonight it will probably open and then my appointment is not until 345 after work it'll probably appear closed. If it opens tonight I'm going to take a picture.... My husband said but I can't see the implant- but I told him the last time, 3 weeks ago when I was hospitalized for 3 days and had excision, cleaned out w antibiotics and put on I'V antibiotics, during that surgery she shifted the muscle and alloderm- maybe that's what we are seeing- muscle or alloderm.... Ugh can't stand this!!!!
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So sorry, Beverly! You have had a time of it. Hope school is going well for you. Hugs!
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Mmtagirl,
Thanks. Work is stressful!! I have 20 kindergarteners with no aide and 6 of the 20 are behavior issues!!!!! Not looking forward to going to work tomorrow! Then after work I have ps appointment. We will see what she says about incision...
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Beverly - Sorry you are having such a time with healing. I really hope they figure something out for you soon. ((hugs))
Eve - Did you get an appointment for your MRI today? Keep us posted.
Happy Tuesday everyone!
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A thankfully quiet Tuesday!
very busy but pleasurable weekend. My son Sean came over, Daniel was here and a fabulous phone call from my son Steven, in Okinawa. Nate smoked enough pork butt for 20 people! 13 hours in the smoker, delish!Congrats to my DIL, Koi, who finished her course work as a pharmacy tech. Very difficult for her as Thai is her first language, She does have a degree in English, but still difficult. They are also celebrating their 5th anniversary AND she has completed her coursework to become an American citizen....really proud of her.
Hoping your appointment goes well today, Beverly. Hang in there!
Mary, how's your mom? Hope her head is feeling better.
Diane, how is your healing coming? Hope you like what you see.
I am getting the dreaded MRI on Friday morning. Trying to not let the heebie geebies build up...lol. I'll be fine with the hit of valium.(or 2)
be well my friends, and safe.
Eve
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