Since my last blog update I have been doing, and almost completed 12 weeks of neuropathy treatments for my hands and feet. I have had a lot of success with my treatments. In the last week alone I have been able to wear shoes and socks, together! I have not been able to do that for about 9 months without great pain. I still can't wear them all day, but at least I am up to about 5 hours! My hands are also getting better from all the pins and needle pain that the neuropathy causes, and allowing me to be able to do some of the fine motor skills I have really struggled with, like getting the gas cap off my car to put gas in it!
While I am seeing a lot of improvement, and very excited about it, there is more work to be done. I think of it as an onion. No not the stinky parts! It's like the layers. You peel one back and there is another. So we get one thing going good, and move to the next! Remember in my last blog I had mentioned a lot of bone and joint pain? Well they switched my cancer medication and that, along with neuropathy treatments, I don't hurt constantly anymore. Now it is just more when I try to push my body to hard, to long. Remember the days of saying " no pain, no gain"? Well it just doesn't work that way in this situation. In fact, when I do that I am usually out of commission for a couple of days. It has, and continues to be the biggest mental game I have ever encountered. It was only a year and a half ago that I was Wonder Woman, bringing home the bacon and frying it up in a pan! It has been tough for me to admit that I just can't do it all, all at once. God has really taught me to relax and let go of the control....ok that last part He is still working with me on! I am a control freak. But learning, I am a work in progress!
March 25th, I had my 3rd surgery. They thought they were going to have to go in and replace the implant in my right breast. When they got in there, they found the implant to be fine, but the tissue around it had become tough from all the lymphatic cording I have had (which had started to grow around the breast and under the armpit again.), due to the radiation treatments. They were then able to take more tissue out, and move things around. Basically, more reconstruction, on the reconstruction. That made me chuckle! That was almost 2 weeks ago, and I am healing very well. This surgery was not nearly as tough, and painful as the last 2! As a result of having to go back in, it has kick up the lymphedema again. This time it is more in the bicep, and the trunk area (chest). So I am heading back to the lymphedema therapy treatments this week. Those girls are great, they'll get it back under control!
So, as the journey is farther down the road, I am continuing to fly to the light. Just hoping not to get a big zap when I hit it, like in "Bug Life"! It is amazing what can happen in a year! It was just over a year ago, my husband Rick, my sister Julie, and I had a head shaving party, and now we all 3 have hair again!! I am continued to be humbled by the support, love and care, that all of you give to me, and my family. It is also fascinating to she how it shows up in the most usually ways. While it has been a long year and a half, almost, from my cancer diagnoses, it has been over all a good one! I am still thankful that my God has trusted me with this journey! Love you all, my cup runneth over!!
and one year later....
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