Nothing but the Best, For Me!!

Hi all,

Well, as most of you know by now, I have the best of the worst. The worst, of course is the cancer. The best is the DCIS. That's it, that's all I have. Nothing invasive. Do you know what that means? No Chemo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That deserves far more exclamation marks than I could even put on this blog!! I am so happy about that.

So...surgery went well. I'm in pain under my arm. I've stopped taking "the good pain pills" (vicodin) 'cause they make me feel loopy. You know, it's bad enough being "blonde" without being loopy on top of it! LOL!! I expect I'll go back to work on Wednesday. I'll just take it easy. You know, I can always blame my asthma for not feeling well. That's the good thing about having two life threatening diseases, eh? If ya wanna lie about one? Just blame it on the other.

I'm not gonna lie, Friday was, by far, the worst day of my life. There was nothing pleasant. I won't go into details but I'm going to say that weeping and howling from the pain of the pre-op "stuff" would be accurate. In fact, if my dog had been present he would have started howling with me, I was so loud.

But...on to better things in the future. As I said before, no chemo. I do have to have radiation. I'll let you all know more about that later but, as I understand it? I get little dots of tattoo on my boobie and I'm pretty sure I'll have to turn these dots into something fabulous when this is all over with.

Ok, back to bed, for me. My joke is that I haven't spent this much time in bed since my honeymoon. ROFL!! I know, I know, not my best joke but, c'mon people. Give cancergirl a break, here, eh? I'm coming off of some good drugs, here. It's Sunday night so I have to watch Desperate Housewives and Brother & Sisters. It's been wonderful having my sister here for this ordeal. She's been a God-send just holding my handing and laughing and crying with me.

I have to thank so many of you for sending the many many e-mails wishing me well and the phone calls. I really needed that and y'all came through.

Oh yah, and I did make Kim watch Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with me. I fast forwarded to all the "good parts" and made sure she enjoyed them and, where possible, sang along with me. Sing it with me, People!!

Oh you pretty Chitty Bang Bang, Chitty Chitty Bang Band we love you. And, in, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang what we'll do...near far in a motor car o what a happy time we'll spend, Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, my fine four fendered friend, bang bang chitty chitty bang bang our fine four fendered friend, our fine four fendered chitty chitty friend!

G'nite everybody!!