Category Archives: surgery
Port placed 3 days ago
Many thanks to my SIL’s best friend, Simone, for going with me to the hospital Thursday to get this darned port placed. (I feel like I have a plug in me but that’s ok, it’s just an odd feeling. The … Continue reading
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A little whine and a kick-a&% book
I just need to whine for a moment: Anniversaries of traumatic events are sneaky. I finally figured out why last Friday – Good Friday – was so rough for me. Last year Good Friday was really, really bad – it … Continue reading
Stuffing Meltdown
The stuffing in my post-surgery camisole insert has reduced me to tears. Hallie and I tried and tried yesterday to get it right, to get it to match my left breast and we couldn’t do it, and finally concluded that … Continue reading
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Waking and the Mack Truck of Remembering
I woke up this morning and I had forgotten. What a glorious moment that is, the moment before you remember that something world shifting has happened. I wondered why the heck it felt like a Mack truck had hit my … Continue reading
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The Tubes ‘n Stitches Are Out!
Woohoo! What a big day. And boy am I a much happier camper. The stitches were pulling and driving me crazy, and the drain tubes in my chest hurt. And major kudos go to my friend Lizzy for witnessing the … Continue reading
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Crisis Management, Step 1: A Stellar Medical Team
A shout out to my stellar medical strategy team, my informal and formal support on all things medical: My sister-in-law, Anne, who is amazingly persistent and tenacious, and who loves me to bits, and whose sense of the broad-brush strokes … Continue reading
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How it all started: March 13
This is what I posted to my friends: holy crap, this news sucks…read sitting down of course you’re sitting down if you’re at the computer, right ok, having a strange sense of humor at the moment….but this was one heck … Continue reading
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