~ °*°• A Pirate's Life •°*° ~
kit by Wicked Princess Scraps
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Update
Info covering from Jan 9 til current.
Jan 11, 2021
Surgery went well overall.
They had to pull extra lymph nodes due to the few showed cancer in the sentinel nodes.
Stayed overnight!
Jan 18, 2021
Well I went on high alert, anxiety and seen a water blister just above incision!
After calling and talking to backup surgeon(MLK Day all closed) and not feeling good about the discussion. My neighbors took me to ER... I was right. Cellulitis was just starting up! O_O
Follow up with Surgeon Jan 19, 2021
He was not happy to see the infection either and called for another day of surgery!
Cleaned out the infection and applied a Wound Care Vac to me!
Another overnighter!!
Jan 24, 2021
Wound Care nurse came to visit! She was very gentle and trying not to cause me undue pain!
Tape was STUCK good to me... She soaked it down with Dermal Wound Care spray!
This made it easier and not nearly as painful. Towards center of chest the nerve blocks helped ALOT!
Jan 25, 2021
Machine starts alerting that there is a leak! OH NO!!
Called case manager Brenda about it and took some pics of machine msg and chest image.
She got ahold of a wound care nurse to come by and fix me up.
Won't deny I was scared that infection was going to flare up AGAIN!
Final decision, redo the whole thing! More pain this time even though he was easy on it all!
Jan 27,2021
Day before my next follow up I guess I must've been exhausted cause I fell asleep sitting up!
My dog Chia has been like GLUED to me since first surgery!
I sit on the bed and she tries to climb up my legs to get up onto bed beside me!
She is trying to take care of me, I am sure of it!
Crossing fingers Dr. Rasmussen is a bit more happy about the looks of wound!
Saturday, January 9, 2021
Prepping for Surgery
January 9, 2021
A new day full of mind on a ADHD mode! LOL
I go into Surgery at 8:15am(Mtn Time - USA)
Will be in hospital for at least overnight after surgery!
Plan is to go to Dad's afterwords for a few days of recovery!
Short term goals-Scapkits
1. Get a Valentine kit I made previewed and uploaded to stores
2. Finish filling folders on a couple other kits, resized and previewed!
3. Clean up the house some so I don't have to worry bout it while recovering at home!
Long Term Goals
Heal Up
Get busy with designing more kits for place in stores!
Enjoy life more
Enjoy those around me both near and far!!
Re-Arrange apartment for best flow and zen for positive thoughts!
Quit smoking and better healthy eating habits!
NOTE: Goals subject to change without notice! LOL
Thanks all for following!
I will be adding resources for those who could use a little help or peace of mind!
Please be patient as I go thru this walk of life with Cancer!!
Thursday, January 7, 2021
Monday, January 4, 2021
A Bride's Day
~ °*°• A Bride's Day •°*° ~
This beautiful kit was inspired by a beautiful Bride from ViNina!
It includes 154 Elements 12 Frames and 18 Papers.
Soft pinks & greens for any wedding day as the bride prepares for her future!
You can find my kit in the stores below
Sunday, January 3, 2021
Passion 4 Scrapz October Blog Train
Saturday, January 2, 2021
Ethereal Caress
~ °*°• Ethereal Caress •°*° ~
kit by Wicked Princess Scraps
FTU PU Wordart
Preview
Preview without Dropshadow!
Friday, January 1, 2021
New Year & Countdown
A New Year is here and 10 days until surgery!
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2021
Got my genetics Cancer panel results back....
Negative.....What this means....I never had the gene that said I could get cancer!!
This comes from birth.
My family lines for 4 generations either side at least, never had breast cancer.
Why am I not surprised and I get the hardest to detect, hardest to see without a MRI,
and only 10% of the women get this type of breast cancer!
Tag I am it!!
Soo with that negative news on the cancer gene, it is good and yet bad in a way!
Why is it bad you ask(as did I)... that means Medicaid will NOT pay for a bi-lateral!
Even though lumps were found in right side via MRI and biopsied(supposedly benign),
Medicaid will only pay for left 1 since doctors, surgeons, mammogram, ultrasounds, and MRI showed and provided proof of the lumps.
How I feel about this? Not happy with medicaid rules on this.
This probably means chemo, radiation, hormone pills all because medicaid providers want that ALL MIGHTY $$$ at the patients health expense(major side effects: puking, hair loss, weight loss, in and out of hospital, trips to the body damaging treatments)!!
They much rather keep a patient under the thumb and show the government they are paying my bills for all than to let the patient decide their health future as to cancer!!
I am glad that the genetics said I never had that gene, which means my children did not get it! I am sad and frustrated that I dont show high risk of getting cancer again, because that means medicaid will ONLY approve left side mastectomy. :(
Hopefully this new year will bring better health, less nasty treatments, less gas and damage to car just to get to appointments!.
Ending this with 1 blessing and positive note
My blessing is that all those who are suffering from BC and treatments, that they feel better soon and stay positive despite all!!
Positve Note: I will be a SURVIVOR and I WILL fight to live another day!!
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