The Surgery Plan
May. 27th, 2008 07:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperLadies and gentlemen, the surgery as expected will be TOMORROW.
I had my pre-op appointment with Dr. Towbin this morning; we confirmed that yes, even if I keep the left breast, it's okay for me to ditch the Tamoxifen since for the left one, it would be purely preventative rather than active treatment. And since the MRI told me that the left breast is clear, I'm reluctant to do anything to it. We are therefore doing a single mastectomy only. Later in the year as appropriate we'll look at reconstruction now that we know what the best options there are, courtesy of talking to Dr. McMillan.
So yeah. I report in at oh-god-no-o'clock (read: 6:45am) for a procedure at 8:30am at Evergreen. I am to stay overnight, and assuming that nothing scary happens, I go home the next morning.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
solarbird will be staying with me overnight. I'm told by the admitting nurses that they'll be putting me into a new section of the hospital where all the rooms have little sleeping nooks for family and visitors and such. That will be useful.
Then I come home and fall over and think very calming thoughts for the next three weeks, as this recovery will be part physical and part mental and I am in desperate need of a vacation. The plan will be:
Wish me luck, folks.
* We expect the cats to be massively confused as, at least for the first couple of days after I get home, we're going to open up the sofa bed so I can sleep on it downstairs. The tricky part will be keeping the cats from sleeping on me.
** Watching of things has already included the first season box set of The X-Files, for which I must issue much public gratitude tocafiorello and her family. THANK YOU CATHY! MmmmmmmmMulder.
*** By way of retail therapy, I just dropped fifty bucks onto iTunes to buy a lot of music that's been on my To Buy queue, including various folks who have opened for Great Big Sea shows (Liam Titcomb, Jeremy Fisher, Ashleigh Flynn), the Carbon Leaf EPs, and the latest from the Irish Descendants. I also bought a CD at Folklife by a group called the North Shore Celtic Ensemble, who were pretty cool.
I had my pre-op appointment with Dr. Towbin this morning; we confirmed that yes, even if I keep the left breast, it's okay for me to ditch the Tamoxifen since for the left one, it would be purely preventative rather than active treatment. And since the MRI told me that the left breast is clear, I'm reluctant to do anything to it. We are therefore doing a single mastectomy only. Later in the year as appropriate we'll look at reconstruction now that we know what the best options there are, courtesy of talking to Dr. McMillan.
So yeah. I report in at oh-god-no-o'clock (read: 6:45am) for a procedure at 8:30am at Evergreen. I am to stay overnight, and assuming that nothing scary happens, I go home the next morning.
solarbird will be staying with me overnight. I'm told by the admitting nurses that they'll be putting me into a new section of the hospital where all the rooms have little sleeping nooks for family and visitors and such. That will be useful.Then I come home and fall over and think very calming thoughts for the next three weeks, as this recovery will be part physical and part mental and I am in desperate need of a vacation. The plan will be:
- Pet Dara
- Pet cats*
- Watch a lot of stuff on DVD**
- Read a lot
- Play a metric fuckload of Nethack
- Assuming I can manage to boot my brain back up after a few days, edit something
- Listen to a bunch of recently purchased music***
Wish me luck, folks.
* We expect the cats to be massively confused as, at least for the first couple of days after I get home, we're going to open up the sofa bed so I can sleep on it downstairs. The tricky part will be keeping the cats from sleeping on me.
** Watching of things has already included the first season box set of The X-Files, for which I must issue much public gratitude to
cafiorello and her family. THANK YOU CATHY! MmmmmmmmMulder.*** By way of retail therapy, I just dropped fifty bucks onto iTunes to buy a lot of music that's been on my To Buy queue, including various folks who have opened for Great Big Sea shows (Liam Titcomb, Jeremy Fisher, Ashleigh Flynn), the Carbon Leaf EPs, and the latest from the Irish Descendants. I also bought a CD at Folklife by a group called the North Shore Celtic Ensemble, who were pretty cool.