Friday, September 23, 2016
Week after surgery report
Post surgery visit with surgeon this week was good. She said the pathology report showed very good results. Nothing showed up in the lymph nodes (she removed 19 of them) and the trace left in the breast is so small don't need to worry about it.
I am healing well. One little problem developed on my skin around the drain opening. My skin is very sensitive to tape. The drain itself will be removed next week and I got the okay to start showering now....Yea!
The surgeon also recommended seeing a therapist for lymphedema therapy. Don't need it right now but could after the radiation treatments. I will be seeing the therapist next week.
The surgeon also referred me to the radiation oncology doctor and I was able to see her right away. She gave me a detailed report on what the radiation treatments do and also all the possible side effects. The most common is like getting a sunburn. They have a scan they give to see where other organs are so they can set the radiation equipment to miss them. I will have that scan next week also. It will still be a few weeks before the radiation treatments start. There are 33 treatments in all lasting about six weeks. She is trying to arrange them so that they will be done just before Thanksgiving and that should give me time to recoup enough to go to Haiti in December. Lord willing we will get to go.
Our friend,Karen from Texas (former missionary in Haiti) has been with me since the day after my surgery. Gary and Karen have been taking good care of me and I am really enjoying having Karen here. God is so good.
Thank you for all your prayers and good wishes. They really are working.
God Bless you,
Marilyn
Saturday, September 17, 2016
Sucessful Surgery :)
Surgery is over and it went well. The surgeon told Gary that the surgery was very successful. God is good.
I checked into the hospital at 10 AM on Wednesday and had some post operation visitors. Very nice.
Surgery started pretty much as scheduled. I remember getting on to the operating table and then waking up in recovery. Surgery started around 12:20pm and I woke after surgery and recovery in a room with Gary, my son Stan, his wife Lisa and other friends there with me. This was about 5:05pm. We visited a bit and at 7pm I turned on the TV to watch Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy but I was too tired and dosed off before they ended.
Had a good nights sleep waking off and on. At 6am, the surgeon came by and said everything was going well and left orders for me to be discharged later in the day. Gary spent the night at some friend's home in Auburn. He woke up at 5am to come to the hospital but was unable to do so because he was feeling dizzy and having stomach issues. He rested until 8:15am when he got up and was feeling ok to picked up our friend Karen from the airport at 9:15am. She was arriving to help me with my recovery for a couple of weeks....Nice! They arrived at my room around 11:50am just as I was about to have lunch. I wasn't hungry so Gary ate my lunch and I was checked out around 12:30pm. We decided we should stay closer to the hospital for the next 24 hours so we spent the night at our friends house in Auburn instead of heading home. They were away on a trip to Minnesota. It was nice not having to ride back to Packwood right after getting out of the hospital. I got another good nights rest before we headed home, and Gary had a chance to recover from his dizziness. God is good.
Yesterday, Friday afternoon, we had visitors/family stop by. Matt, Sarah, and their four children along with Matt's brother Zak and my brother, David and his wife, Sherry. We hadn't seen Matt and Sarah since we stopped by their home in Ohio on our way home from Haiti. We got to meet their newest son and get to know the others better. It was a wonderful visit and a really good time for us all.
I have pain medication to take, but the pain really has been minimal. I took some the first couple of days, Thursday and Friday, but today I haven't needed any. I have no swelling, no pain, and no infection. Praise God! I am able to doing things around the house as before, and I'm feel well mentally and physically.
We go back to visit the doctor and surgeon next week to find out all the results of surgery and if they got all the cancer.
Thanks so much for all your thoughts, prayers, visits, emails, texts and phone calls, they are very much appreciated. I feel all the love coming my way and I'm asking you to continue to pray for my recovery.
May God Bless You All,
Marilyn
I checked into the hospital at 10 AM on Wednesday and had some post operation visitors. Very nice.
Surgery started pretty much as scheduled. I remember getting on to the operating table and then waking up in recovery. Surgery started around 12:20pm and I woke after surgery and recovery in a room with Gary, my son Stan, his wife Lisa and other friends there with me. This was about 5:05pm. We visited a bit and at 7pm I turned on the TV to watch Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy but I was too tired and dosed off before they ended.
Had a good nights sleep waking off and on. At 6am, the surgeon came by and said everything was going well and left orders for me to be discharged later in the day. Gary spent the night at some friend's home in Auburn. He woke up at 5am to come to the hospital but was unable to do so because he was feeling dizzy and having stomach issues. He rested until 8:15am when he got up and was feeling ok to picked up our friend Karen from the airport at 9:15am. She was arriving to help me with my recovery for a couple of weeks....Nice! They arrived at my room around 11:50am just as I was about to have lunch. I wasn't hungry so Gary ate my lunch and I was checked out around 12:30pm. We decided we should stay closer to the hospital for the next 24 hours so we spent the night at our friends house in Auburn instead of heading home. They were away on a trip to Minnesota. It was nice not having to ride back to Packwood right after getting out of the hospital. I got another good nights rest before we headed home, and Gary had a chance to recover from his dizziness. God is good.
Yesterday, Friday afternoon, we had visitors/family stop by. Matt, Sarah, and their four children along with Matt's brother Zak and my brother, David and his wife, Sherry. We hadn't seen Matt and Sarah since we stopped by their home in Ohio on our way home from Haiti. We got to meet their newest son and get to know the others better. It was a wonderful visit and a really good time for us all.
I have pain medication to take, but the pain really has been minimal. I took some the first couple of days, Thursday and Friday, but today I haven't needed any. I have no swelling, no pain, and no infection. Praise God! I am able to doing things around the house as before, and I'm feel well mentally and physically.
We go back to visit the doctor and surgeon next week to find out all the results of surgery and if they got all the cancer.
Thanks so much for all your thoughts, prayers, visits, emails, texts and phone calls, they are very much appreciated. I feel all the love coming my way and I'm asking you to continue to pray for my recovery.
May God Bless You All,
Marilyn
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