Tag: cancersucks
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Results & Summer Vacation
Life (especially with kids) sure has a way of helping you forget about some of the more unpleasant things in the world. Cancer seems almost like a distant memory now that I’m home. My days have been filled with hugs and giggles and marble run engineering. If it weren’t for the incisions and my short…
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Can’t Keep A Warrior Down
There never seems to be a dull moment in my life these days, but I guess when you’re fighting for your life against an enemy you can’t see, it makes sense. These less than dull moments just seem harder when I’m homesick. We’ve already rescheduled flights home once. It appears we may have to do…
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Happy Wife, Happy Life
As of yesterday, all my drains are out and I’m feeling much less uncomfortable! And, even better than that, my sarcoma surgeon shared the pathology results from the mastectomy: NEGATIVE MARGINS! She was able to remove any cancer that remained. A small tumor remained from my original lumpectomy in September. The “post-surgical changes” everyone was…
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Phase 3: COMPLETE
Hello everyone! I’m sorry I haven’t updated you all sooner. I’ve been doing a lot of sleeping. The surgery went very well. The surgeons were able to complete the mastectomy as well as the reconstruction. Results from pathology will take about a week to come back. The plastic surgeon decided not to perform the reduction…
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Phase 3
Today is surgery day! The plan has changed a bit. Due to changes from radiation, my surgeon would prefer to only do the mastectomy and reconstruction and wait to operate on the other breast. She thinks the results will be better in the long run. This does, however, mean that another surgery is in my…
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Pre-Celebration
It feels so strange to be back here, navigating the halls of this enormous hospital. I didn’t realize how normal the last five weeks have felt, how not-like-a-cancer-patient I felt. But, laying in the MRI machine yesterday, reality came crashing back down like a giant wave. It cascaded over me, nearly bringing me to tears.…
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What Do You See?
Do you ever wonder what people see when they look at you? When a stranger stares or smiles at you, does it make you want to know what they’re thinking? This thought used to occasionally pop into my head but I find it’s showing up more often. My new hair (and lack thereof a little…
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A Good Cry
Disclaimer: This post is going to sound a little different than most of the others. It can’t always be sunshine and rainbows, right? Today I woke up with what felt like a gray cloud over my head. It didn’t help that the sky was also full of them. Being happy and positive on gloomy days…
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Live For Today
I’ve been home for about a week now. It’s so easy to get lost in the day to day chaos that is life. Getting back into our routine was easier than I expected. Cooking, cleaning, homework, extracurriculars, baths, bedtime. All of it can really just take over everything, including the fact that I have cancer.…
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Phase 2: COMPLETE!
On Friday 4/12, I finished my last radiation treatment! Overall, I’d say radiation was pretty easy. I had an excellent doctor and radiation team so everything ran like a well-oiled machine. The family and I celebrated with donuts and a trip to the zoo before packing for our trip back home! In just a few…
Spontaneous Sunshine 