It's a Good Day

Hello everyone!! Well things here are getting back to normal. As Sandy said in the previous message, I had my drain out on Friday. I was expecting the worse in terms of pain. The nurse said take a deep breath, I did and it was out. That was it. No pain at all. I guess there has to be some up sides during this whole thing. The nurse changed the dressing on the incision and we were free to go. I am now working on mobility. That means lots of exercises that are hard and somewhat painful. I find it hard to decided how far from the point of uncomfortable to push it. I go to a physiotherapy class on Thursday. Hopefully they will be able to answer some questions for me and get me on the right track. It is still hard to put on any clothes that need to go over my head. i have mastered a few things but they still need to be on the big side.

At the doctors office they gave me what they call a "softy" to use in my bra until I can be fitted to a prostheses. This one is just made of what looks like pillow stuffing. Jessica was asking me about it on Sunday morning. I explained that for the surgeon to take the bad lump out he need to take the whole breast off and that this "softy" would fill the other side of my bra. And she said "isn't it going to be too BIG". Kids are so cute aren't they - NOT!!

Today I went back to the gym for the first time in about 2 1/2 weeks. Nothing too hard - just 40 minutes on the elipticle machine. No weights yet. But it felt good to get back to a normal routine, visit my friends at the gym and SWEAT. My worry is that if I have to do chemo again that I won't be able to recover as quickly as I did this time if I am not in good physical shape. So my goal for the next 4 weeks is to do as much as I can to prepare for possible chemo in January.