Tapping fingers impatiently...

I am 9 days out from surgery and desperately wanting my drain out.  I had an appointment for this afternoon with the hopes of getting it removed then, but the drainage isn’t low enough yet. I’ve rescheduled for tomorrow. 🤞😭

Otherwise I feel okay, not terrific and not terrible. I’m tired and uncomfortable but not in pain. Sleeping with a new tissue expander and a drain is not comfortable - especially for a side sleeper like me. Days of rain don’t help either.  I want normalcy. I want to go out and do things - but without a tube coming out of my body  

The good news?  Since I expect to be mid-radiation at the time of our usual July 4 trip to Ohio, I decided to make it a Memorial Day trip instead.  To make it even more exciting, I will be FLYING with the boys in the middle of next week and the husband will drive over for the weekend. The boys are thrilled. They have flown before but don’t remember it.  I’m finally going to take advantage of the early boarding for parents with small children!  Plus my family has a lot of late May birthdays so it’s a great time to visit. My grandpa will be turning 94 and I will get to hug (gently) my cousin who is also in the middle of cancer treatment - different kind of cancer but lots of chemo and surgery bonding this year.  We can compare the fuzz we have starting to grow back on our heads post chemo and compare our surgery scars 😳

Finally, the hot flashes continue to be miserable (see photo). I’ve had a medication adjustment in the hopes it will help - TBD. 

Edited to add: I forgot to mention the update from my visit with the breast surgeon yesterday!  This was a 6 month follow up to November’s surgery and a 1 week follow up to last weeks surgery.  As mentioned, last week they removed the nipple on the right side because the “margins” were not clear from the November surgery.  This means that when they tested the tissue removed, there was cancer too close to the edge for them to be confident they got it all.  Yesterday I received the pathology results on the nipple tissue and we were correct to have it removed.  It did contain what they call Stage 1 or DCIS or pre-cancer.  It’s cancer that has not started invading things yet.  Not to be alarmed, this doesn’t mean chemo didn’t work.  If I understand correctly, the chemo would not necessarily reach this tissue (which is why they do chemo AND radiation).