On My Way

Smooth sailing with the chemo yesterday, now hitting a bit of rough seas. Nausea, headaches, but lots of good medicines to control the side effects, and lots of good care.

Glad I finally made it. To bring the story up to date, on arriving in south carolina, I saw an excellent plastic surgeon who scheduled my to have the expander removed 2 days later. This went without a hitch except for some post-anesthesia reactions that had me walking about the house like a herky-jerky Frankenstein (Fraankensteen)?? This too passed. Apparently my wacky immune system had formed some sort of capsule around the expander and planned to have nothing to do with it. Gotta love the consistency of this wacko immune system. Anyway, happily home with some drain leaking, (yes, another one!) fluid accumulating issues, however was about to have it pulled a week later when the night before...random severe illness and temp of 103. To doctor in the morning where they promptly admitted to the hospital for wound infection, 5 days of antibiotics and 2 more weeks delay till the start of chemo. Oy. And I won't even tell you how the transport guy took me to the wrong hospital from the clinic, Bethy ended up driving me herself and I showed up to the floor in a gown walking in with the IV sick as a dog. Yikes the logistics! But they took good care of me after that, got alot better within a couple days, went home and finished my antibiotics. I am just chock full o' medicines. So it was a great day when I finally got to start the next phase of treatment, and even though it's not great fun, it is progress. Bethy and I also tried a yoga class last week and I see if I can continue that to some degree as the treatment progresses. Kind people all around me. Thanks to all for all your kind wishes, cards, love.