And we keep going...

My surgery was June 25th and everything went well. I was cussing again when I came out of the anesthesia. I have never felt so much pain. Thanks to Brad, Kristie and Kelly I was kept company in the hospital and went home the next day with my own nurse Kelly (for those of you who don't know her, we have known each other since 6th grade). She took amazing care of me, even if at times I wanted to punch her in the face because she was making me shower and walk. I was really uncomfortable.  But I love her to death and I am happy she was here to help me. 

So the results are in:

Both breasts were removed. The left breast was free and clear of cancer. Both tumors in my right breast shrunk to about 1 cm.  Unfortuantly my lymph nodes were still positive for cancer. Dr. Weighall removed two layers of nodes from under my right arm and out of 15 nodes only three had cancer. That is good. The disappointing part is now I am going to have to have radiation. 7 weeks, 5 days a week. They will last about 30 minutes so I will do them after school. I meet with my radiologist on Friday so I will know more then. Another good part, my tumors are estrogen and progesterone fed so I will start a pill called Tamoxifen that I will take daily for 10 years. It is a hormone blocker so it will help to keep the cancer from coming back by not giving it what it feeds on. 

As for the reconstruction. Dr. Schmidt was very excited with how well the reconstruction went. He placed expanders in my chest and as of right now I have nice perky B size boobies.  We won't know about the rest of the reconstruction or expanding until after I meet with my radiologist on Friday. 

So I will leave you with a funny story. When I met with Dr. Romer today he had a pre med student following him trying to decide if oncology was something he was interested in. Dr. Romer wanted to see Dr. Schmidt's work. So I showed him. (I will show almost anyone at this point). We encouraged the youngin to touch them because of how hard they are and Dr. Romer was explaining what expanders were. (They are incredibly hard.).The kid's face turned three shades of red. It was hilarious. Highlight of my day. 

Thank you to everyone for the support. I really appreciate it.