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Posted 2016-09-29T00:54:46Z

Boobies do not Define Bobbie

Woot woot woot - I had to go to the hospital today and they let me go home!!  Seems strange to start out with a journal entry with this statement; however, as I mentioned in my last blog, I have been dealing with this persistent staph infection.  I will again spare you the gory details, but long story short, my body is rejecting the tissue expander in my right breast due to the infection.  The past two days things seemed to be going in the wrong direction so I called the cancer nurses.  The message was to come in and bring an overnight bag, just in case.  Ha, isn't that a doozy, the cancer was in my left breast, but my right breast is the one not being cooperative!  I guess that is how it goes sometimes.  [...]

Posted 2016-09-17T22:06:45Z

MRSA is no walk in the park

The good news . . . I only spent six days in the hospital, and the doc was able to find an oral antibiotic that worked against my strain of MSRA (so no IV antibiotics needed).  The bad news . . . well, not really bad I guess.  More of what is expected . . . the staph infection is slowly going away.  Much of my lower breast skin and muscle tissue has been eaten away.  My body is fighting pretty hard to reject the tissue expander.  So the past few 22 days I have had some pretty crappy days, but mostly good.  I will take that.[...]