feeling good

I spent a nice drizzly day lounging.

My mouth is back to normal and I can eat anything (and I have been eating everything!). I'm pretty sore since my innards were shuffled, but it's manageable and I've even taken a couple walks with Red and Keith today. I'm on heavy duty ibuprofen and, thankfully, haven't needed the "big gun" pain killers.

Looking forward to a relaxing and slow weekend!

Resting Comfortably

Back home. So far things are going easier than expected, but we'll see how it goes after the pain meds wear off. Keith went and filled my prescription for heavy duty motrin, and I'm sitting here trying to choke down enough food to safely take the pill. They gave me something that dried out all my secretions so I'm guzzling water and eating salines is a complete joke. I had some broth and seemed ok but crackers are futile. I came out of the sedation much easier than when I had surgery to install my port....what a relief! I just had to wait in the recovery room for a while because I had to prove to them that I could pee (not a problem). I'm tired.....more later.

Unremarkable Scan

Those are the words of the radiologist. The take away point is that they can't see any reason for my hip to hurt. There's no cancer, there's no evidence of arthritis or anything else for that matter. I'm relieved it isn't cancer, but now I've got to figure out how to fix it. I'm wondering if it isn't my bodies reaction to Herceptin or perhaps just a hold over from chemo. Who knows, I'm just relieved it isn't more cancer!

Snip Snip, I'm Getting Fixed

It's been a while since I posted. I've been enjoying the routine of getting back to work. All this cancer crap has made me realize how much I enjoy my job (the teaching part anyway). School is going well, I'm feeling good and I manage to forget about cancer sometimes!

Soon after going back to school I noticed my left hip was bugging me. It is sore and achey and while I think it is getting a little better I'm headed in for an MRI tomorrow to get it checked out. My oncologist isn't too worried about it, so that's heartening.

In other news...I'm all scheduled up for my oophorectomy next Thursday. I need to get this done because my BRCA2 mutation also means I've got a pretty good chance (27%) of getting ovarian cancer. By all reports this surgery will be pretty easy physically. It isn't as easy to wrap my head around emotionally. Keith and I had been trying to have a baby for a while before all this cancer mess started and this surgery will put a definitive end to all that and that makes us both sad. The reality is that knowing I have a 50% chance of passing along my "cancer gene", I probably wouldn't want to be procreating anyway. We've just got to wrap our heads around the upsides of being "child-free" not childless; more time to ourselves and no need to save for college!