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Guess I must have run over a robin,. Those who read the previous blog will know I planned a meal and a drink for Saturday, before my chemo started Tuesday (tomorrow). Well talk of all luck being bad, I had to spend Friday and the next 2 nights in hospital due my Diverticulitis playing up and was drugged up on Tramadol and Morphine while being boosted on antibiotics. Well i'm finally back home now and they still say they can do my chemo along with the treatment for my Divertic. I'll have a small libation...
Another milestone on this journey has now been reached as my tumor was removed last Tuesday. The surgery took a little longer than they'd hoped due to adhesions in some areas; the areas around the the blood vesels were particularly tricky as it began to break apart and it had reached the sciatic nerve too which prolonged things a little. Certainly my main question at my post op appt tomorrow is whether they actually mangaged to remove it all as I wasn't confident given their description and was...
Tired, muted and neither here nor there - might be a good way to describe the way I feel at the beginning of this new week. Doesn't everything take so much time? Or perhaps it's us, when we're sick and forget that hospitals are dealing with SO many others who are all waiting for results.
We want things DONE and we want them NOW! That's normal.....we'd like to have everything done and dusted within a few days and know where we stand with our lives - in reality it doesn't happen like that...
OK, so I got to the hospital about 15 mins early - no mags to read and I am so fed up with cancer I wasn't going to get any of the well-read leaflets down AGAIN...
Just after 3pm, I heard my name and looked around to see my BCN. She came up to me and said
"I didn't know if you would come - I thought that even if you did that you would ask for another BCN and I am sorry about the way the phone call went and what I said - I shouldn't have"..... I just stopped in my tracks and gave her a hug and said...
Appointment on Friday at 3pm for hospital post-op silly bra fitting, wound and drains check..and hopefully results - though I'm not holding my breath. Will also find out when chemo will begin and when I can start the transfer to Southampton, I hope.
Feeling low and sore, of course, up and down periods all day long. Miss my boy like crazy, it's been almost two months now and I should have been making my plans abut my return to life in India - and the study visa - but they have gone askew right...
Home yesterday afternoon. Sore, achey and right-boob-less, but it will come ok in the end. Just need to rest up a little now!
Thanks for the love and prayers...
The Embassy refused to give me clearance to go back to India for five days - even though it is only ten days until my two month enforced gap between visa's is over.
The hospital called while I was on my way back from Dublin and asked that as I cannot go back, would I please come in for Mastectomy surgery on Wednesday.
I have today only, to call my son, on the blo*dy phone an tell him the truth...on the phone, whilst he is 'alone'. I have no idea now when I will see him again. On Friday...
Ok, not good news.
The report and meet today showed me that they found and removed the 2.7cm invasive tumour, and dug a bit deeper and found a 6.8cm invasive too. Microscopic clusters in nodes that they removed too. So it's stage 2, grade 3. (I was fearing stage 3 - so I thank God for that)...found a couple of tiny DC's in situ & thank God, 0.06 & 0.70 mm only and not about to 'break out'. She told me it is potentialy life threatening and not to forget that at all.......and of course the mastectomy...
Actually feeling better today, as I didn't eat anything bar my frozen oranges and a couple of bits of cheese & some walnuts.....now I know that the problem really kicks off when I eat a meal and gets worse throughout the day if I eat my 3 small meals - but of course I can't not eat forever!!
So, off to the post office today and a short visit to the local grocery store which dear old friend Peggy runs - with the help of her sons and lovely daughter-in-law and their children. She's been...
Hope everyone's having a good B/H weekend...raining and cold here on the mountain, deep in the Irish countryside...
Feeling a bit under the weather for a few days now with nausea, bloating, and fatigue (boob is fine enough - just soreness & a little swelling still - be glad when I get the dratted sponge and sticky clingfilm-like dressing off though grrrr) - and that's before chemo! Temp has been under normal for about 6 days too - very strange - never had that before and feeling the cold very...
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