Another Leg of My Journey

Started today. Back to Mayo for what is called an extraction. They drew 200 cc's off of each side. I no longer have rock hard melons sitting on my chest! I have to wait another 6 weeks, then go back to the plastic surgeon at which time he checks to make sure the muscle has not contracted and snapped back to the chest wall (thus closing the pocket meaning there would be no room for the REAL fake boobs). If all is well I then schedule a time for the exchange surgery-which will be beginning of June. My plastic surgeon suggested that I wait until I am finished with my Herceptin (June sometime) so that he can not only do the exchange surgery but could take out my port while I am under (otherwise my regular surgeon would take the port out during an office visit under local anesthesia). I am thinking that it sure would be nice to have it all done at once huh? I will have to ask my oncologist if he recommends taking the port out right away. Lots of folks leave them in for a year or so 'just in case'. I guess they are more difficult to put in if you need them put in a second time. It's almost unreal for me to think that this is almost done. I wonder how I will feel once I am no longer going to weekly treatments. It is you see a bit of a safety net....while doing treatments I am still actively fighting the beast. I will just have to wrap my head around the fact that there is no longer a beast to fight and enjoy no longer having weekly doctor appointments!

Cabin update-Our cabin appeared to be undisturbed last weekend which is a good thing! We did not get as far on the floor as we had hoped. For petes sake you would think with all of the remodeling that David and I have done we would know that things always take longer than you think...... We did however get the floor sanded. I ran the floor sander for two days straight, used muscles I forgot that I had! David got one coat of poly on the floor. I have decided that people who re-do floors for a living do not charge near enough for their work! My friend Mary just had hers redone and she got one hell of a deal in my opinion!

Eagles-man there were eagles everywhere last weekend up north. Not a single good photo shot was to be had though.