March 27, 2009

• Quick Update

  It has been confirmed!  Surgery number 6 has been scheduled for April 8th - but it is a good one as I finally get these damn expanders out and the silion ones in my chest!  The pain of the whole expansion process was unknown to me - I think that if I was aware of how painful the whole process would be, I may have hesitated before agreeing to the reconstruction aspect of breast cancer.  But I've managed so far, so what is one more surgery?

  The bad news is that Duke is also due for some knee surgery - he is out for the year when it comes to athletics, even though he has had ACL surgery on both knees, he still hurt his left knee - the ligament needs to be replaced by a cadaver one, as both his hamstrings have been used for his ACL's.  They also discovered that he had some bone degeneration on his femur that will require him to have another surgery after he heels from this next one - they need to go in and put a patch on the bone to slow down the degeneration process and if he doesn't do this, he can end up with bad and painful arthritis for the rest of his life!  Nice...

  Now if only Gannon can learn how to drive, we could possibly go in for surgery together at the same time!

  Had my last treatment several weeks ago, so I'll update with pictures soon!  But other than this stupid cold/flu that has hit our family, we are doing well and I am starting work full-time in April! Yeah!  My life is almost ready to get back on track...

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