So much has
happened in the past few weeks.
·
My
lung healed itself. No problems
breathing since I was released from the hospital.
·
My
cancer is not triple negative. We
found out on 2/25 that my cancer is estrogen positive, meaning it grows in
response to estrogen. Previously we
thought it was triple negative meaning it lacked estrogen and/or progesterone
receptors. There are no targeted
therapies for triple negative cancers.
But there are targeted therapies for estrogen positive cancers so
ultimately it is a good thing we found this out. Besides chemo, radiation and surgery,
Endocrine treatments are usually taken for 5 years after treatment (a pill
taken daily) to help block the effects of estrogen.
·
I
plucked my eye brows for the first time in about 5 months. I used to do this daily, not obsessively (or
maybe?) but I made sure I’d get the stray brows before anyone else saw them so
sometimes there’d be nothing to pluck.
But to go for months without NEEDING to pluck them was hard. And then all of a sudden I had 5 hairs left
on either side, sticking out like an old mans white eye brows that need to be
cut. So I trimmed them because I
couldn’t pluck the only brows I had left.
And then I looked and there were stray brows that needed to be
plucked!
·
My
hair is growing back! It’s black and
straight so far. Bobby pointed out to me
that it’s less than a centimeter long but it seems long to me. Long enough to have trimmed it twice which is
why Bobby pointed out the shortness of my hair because he wants me to let it
grow. (hey wait, is this kind of like me thinking I’m tall???)
·
My
Stage 2 surgery date has been set for May 10th. The recovery time is shorter since the
surgery is not as invasive. So I’ll be
out of work until about 2 weeks after the 2nd surgery.
·
As
far as my healing goes, I still take pain medicine but am trying to take a
little less. I can sleep on my side now
and have tried it but it’s extremely painful on my breasts. I feel sort of normal when I don’t move but
as soon as I move my breasts hurt. I
think this is the nerves starting to work again. Goose bumps are also pretty painful. I once told some friends one of my goals in
life was to be warm and I think that goal is moving towards the top of the
list. It’s a good sign that goose bumps
hurt because it means my nerves are working but ugh, they are very
uncomfortable! I am looking forward to
some good, humid heat to keep me warm!
Our house is 73 right now and I’m thinking about getting another
blanket. Then again, a hot flash could
come over me and I’d need to remove everything and put the laptop somewhere
besides my lap. I feel like my core temp
has gone up since surgery and my hot flashes are more intense. Who really knows though? Anyway, the incisions are still healing and I
am to clean them twice per day with iodine.
The scabs of my stomach incision are gone. My stomach is numb so I can’t tell if my
pants are falling down or not J.
I wore jeans on Sunday and it was a weird feeling to have something
tighter around my mid section. And I
think they fell down a lot. At least I
know I can wear jeans instead of sweats all the time
I’m going to
do a few posts because there’s a lot going on.
The next post will be about being estrogen positive.
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