We’re home. But it wasn’t as simple as planned.
We planned on leaving Houston at about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday and being home by late afternoon. But as we fought the morning rush-hour traffic near the Houston Medical District to the Interstate, Jenny was speaking to the triage nurse at the MD Anderson breast center.
Jenny wasn’t happy last night. She didn’t get to eat, but later admitted that the restricted diet was smart. When she received more pain medication at about midnight, she had another wave of nausea. At that point, she was happy that she only had chicken broth and jello to eat for dinner.
Since midnight, though, Jenny has been progressing very well. By 6 a.m. this morning, she was up and around in her room and getting dressed. She ate breakfast after the visit from a doctor this morning. Dr. Gainer’s fellow allowed a change to the diet restriction. But under the advice of the nurse, Jenny took it easy and ate cereal and fruit. There was no breakfast taco, as I promised yesterday.
Here’s another surgery-day timeline report. We took a vote and it was unanimous — no more surgeries, please!
So we fully expect this to be the last post that chronicles a day for cancer surgery.
Before you begin, I will offer this quick spoiler: It went very well.
Looks like heavy-duty antibiotics and commercial-grade moisturizer have rescued me! Surgery is on the docket for Monday afternoon.
And the bigger news…
Tomorrow we are leaving for Houston. We have appointments on Tuesday to settle when my right axillary dissection (aka removing the lymph nodes in my right armpit area) will be and if the expander will stay in or come out during that surgery.
In the meantime, I thought I’d share some of the pics I’ve taken over the past two hospital visits.
Happy New Year!
As Alan and I talked about 2012, we agreed that it was really a pretty good year. Sure, there is that cancer thing…that kind of put a damper on things. But before our world got turned upside down on 9/18, lots of good things happened. To name a few…