Tag: prophylactic mastectomy

Rounding third…

We are in the home stretch now!  No more party to the table and I think giving my liver the next week off will be a good idea.

This week will be all about wrapping up loose ends and preparing things for the family as much as possible before Monday.  I did some yard work today…pruning things that I don’t like Frank to do.  He is missing some of the “finesse” that is needed.  Then finished cleaning the guest room for my sister-in-law.  I have to say, it is nice to have that room available again.  It has been a storage room for us and a real mess for the last few years.

The girls and I also gave the dog a bath which was much-needed! Then we just laid around.  I really wanted to take a nap but they took turns laying with me, being tickled and just spending time.  How could I tell them no when we will not be able to do this again for weeks or months even?

Tomorrow marks the 7 day mark….one week until surgery.  Wow!

Party to the table

Boy is it HOT!  The news had called for 100 degrees today but  I think we only made it to 97 :-).  By 11am it was 90. People get cranky when it gets this hot…sweaty cranky people everywhere …..oh well what can you do.

Time is moving right along now.  This coming weekend is the last of my “party to the operating table”.  Not nearly as wild as last week!  Saturday starts with Megan’s piano recital where she will play Beethoven’s “Fur Elise”.  I will post a you tube link!  Then my brother and sister-in-law are coming for a BBQ.  The kids love to see their cousins.

Today was all about tie-dye shirts and swimming.  We had some mixed results on the shirts but for the most part not too bad.  I personally am happy that craft is over and am not planning to revisit it anytime in the near future!

I find that I am amazingly calm.  I look at the calendar and am fully aware how close the mastectomy is now but instead of fear, nerves or and other negative feeling I am instead  calm and a bit relieved.  After all of this time it is almost over, finally!  I know there will be pain but I have a pretty high threshold and am sure that the doctors will supply something nice for it.  The mental relief of it being over…will be worth the pain.

Not long now

Less than 2 weeks now.  First I need to start off with a big Happy Birthday to my husband!  I hope you enjoyed your round of golf today!

So the 5-year-old mind continues to swirl for Madison.  We can be doing just about anything when she will blurt out another interesting question such as:

  • “so mommy, if you do not have this surgery would you become one of the bald people?”
  • “mommy, how are they going to make your boobies and belly smaller, squish them down really hard?”

She has also taken the opportunity to tell random people that I will be going into the hospital.  But she does seem to be handling it alright.

We have a list of crafts and things that they wanted to do this summer so we went shopping yesterday to buy many supplies.  We made our first iron on t-shirts last night.  We will attempt tie-dye later this week.  The puppets and puppet stage are in process.  My kitchen looks like a Kindergarten art room gone terribly wrong.

Other than that things are relatively calm 13 days out from surgery.  The insurance company actually called to see if I needed anything today…found that interesting.  We have the guest room cleaned out probably for the first time in years.  My sister-in-law will be staying the night before the surgery so the girls do not have to be pulled from best a 4 am to take me to the hospital.

Not too much longer now!