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