DD-Day...
I know it's been a while, but there's been lots of "stuff"! Well it probably hasn't been that long, but time is somehow warping around me, distorting days & weeks, giving me the sense of time passing...
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My hospital stay is a little blurry (hoped up on so much drugs n all) but will tell u what I remember.
Was in for 3 nights. had a single masectomy and start of reconstruction. had a drain in (that stayed in for 2 weeks) and had hospital leggings on & leg massagers on. I did have jammies that had buttons at the front and bra's that did up at the front too... during the days if u wanna wear clothes also take shirts that do up at the front. the first night nurses had to help me to the bathroom because i was still attached to machines lol... pain isnt too bad while ur in hospital, but u may have some side effects from the drugs they feed u :) Tell the nurses everything & also the 2nd u get any pain - tell them.... take a couple of things to do that dont require a brain - i took a portable dvd player and some gossip magazines... also had a tv in my room :)
I could not reach my hair in a comftable matter for about a week... but i did have the other arm i could use :( they give u so many drugs so u can move around and do normal stuff the best u can, & they tell u to try certain things - aslong as its not heavy lifting or anything strainuous...
after I got home that week was a bit of a blur too... anxoius about results prob didnt help lol... i would just wander around the house, couldnt concentrate even on the tv long enough to keep me still. had alot of naps but had to be awake at certain times to keep up to date with all the drugs lol, so wasnt getting much good sleep.
I didnt have to have chemo as my surgeon wouldnt suggest it for my rare type of breast cancer & so I am one of the lucky few who skipped that... lol... & they also didnt take out any lymph nodes (long confusing story) so now real long term side effects for me but I still got the chemo brain lol and all the fatigue etc, I'm booked in for my next surgery sept 6th where they take the tissue expander out and put the implant in ... wooohoooo! not over yet a couple more minor things after that then should be getting back to life :)
Looking back now, amazed how I got thru it all with my sense of humour in tack, but I admit I have had my bad days and its been a constant battle. but you'll get thru it ! Just concentrate on 1 thing at a time and get thru each moment of each day and then in a couple of months someone will ask u for advice and you'll look back and think wow, I lived that, I survived! Look at me now!