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!