Finally, a much needed break.

It's been a busy two months since I first found out about all this stuff. My July calendar was busy with tests and consults while August has been busy with more doctor appointments, additional tests, surgery, and consults with new doctors.



Today I met with my radiation doctor, Dr. Wynstra at St. John's who will be taking care of me after chemo. He's a very nice, THOROUGH kinda guy. Yestereday afternoon he met with my surgeon and my oncologist along with other surgeons, etc. who decided as a group what would be the best course of action at this point. Unfortunately he couldn't tell me when chemo would start since I guess that depends on how quickly I recover from surgery. I have an appointment with Dr. Mathews, my new Oncologist, on Sept. 10th and she'll tell me the game plan then.

As for right now, I'm going to take a deep breath and enjoy a whole week free of doctor appointments. Wheee! :)

As for how I'm feeling, I'm definately healing up. I'm not as weak as I was, and I can lift my left arm up past 90 degrees. I'm trying to avoid taking pain meds until I'm ready to go to bed, because they knock me out and make me better able to sleep lying on my back all night. (I'm a tummy sleeper!) This morning I took a shower all by myself. Jim still has to help me get dressed because of my limited arm movement. I'm getting to the point where I can lift myself out of bed as long as I'm propped up a little bit.

Slowly but surely I'm getting better. If anything changes, I'll blog again. Otherwise, don't expect to hear anything until after September 10th when I get my chemo schedule.

As always, thanks for reading. :)