a now 53-year-old post-menopausal woman with a strong family history of breast and ovarian cancer describes her experiences after having both ovaries and fallopian tubes removed. Subsequently diagnosed with Stage 2 triple negative breast cancer and finished with treatment, awaiting final reconstruction post bilateral mastectomies. The fun just doesn't quit!
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Busy Day-After-Surgery
When I woke this morning, I felt pretty bad. I thought about the upcoming mornings-after that I will experience and decided I was going to make up my mind to get up and feel fine. Part of feeling bad probably had to do with having let myself get behind with my pain meds yesterday and having taken 10mgs of Valium to help me sleep. But once I was up and moving, I felt much better. I made a point of keeping track of my meds today, writing down each time I took one. I also used a homeopathic remedy that my friend who is a specialist in this field gave to me. It seems to work synergistically with the oxycodone. We went to a couple of farmer's markets, Grace driving as I cannnot while still on the meds. Did a lot of cooking, had some photos taken of Dave and myself-I'd wanted a portrait of us for our 25th anniversary, which was the day before the biopsy and kind of got ignored with the situation as it is-and even got a nap in this afternoon and watched a movie tonight. Busy day, pretty normal. Enjoyed the heck out of it.
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