Surgery... done!

I had my surgery yesterday. All went well.

I had to check-in at 6:15am. First they had to do a wire loc so my surgeon knew where to cut out since there was pretty much no more tumor left. That required me being wheelchaired to the breast center next door. They have a tunnel going from the hospital to the building where the breast center is. During the wire loc they so a bunch of mammograms. They do two before to find where they need to place the wire and then after they measure and place the giant needle in (they numbed my breast so it did not hurt) they do another Mammogram to check. They had to do an adjustment so after the adjustment they did another mammogram to check it and it was good. they insert the wire through the giant needle and then tape it down so it was not in the way of my gown. Then they wheeled me back through the tunnel and at 11:30am I headed to the operating room.

I had partial mastectomy also known as a lumpectomy (which really means they removed the marker that was placed when they did the core biopsy plus a margin of good tissue since the chemo did it's job there really wasn't much of a tumor left which is awesome) and they removed a few of the lymph-nodes that had cancer in them.

I am attempting to type with one hand since I am not allowed to lift my left arm just yet. I have a drain in my armpit where they removed some lymph-nodes. I have to empty it 3 times a day and measure it and log it on a form the doctor gave me.

I don't really have pain where the incisions are, but I do have soreness. If I don't move I am fine... of course I can't not move. They want me to get up and move whenever I can.  My throat hurts because they intubated me during the surgery. That should go away in a few days.

In other news, my ankle is getting better. I can walk on it. It will probably be another week before it is back to normal.

and....

HAIR!!!!! I can see hair growing on my head and eyebrows and eyelashes!!! Soon I won't have to draw eyebrows to have a face.