New York, New York

You can and it is,

I'll be thinking of you tomorrow. I know everything will be fine. So glad you got the xanax. btw, it works wonders for trips to the dentist too. as for discharge food, get them both, if only for a sip and a nibble. eventually you will be hungry and will be glad to eat them both.

xo

deb

OG where are you having your sugery?

Sweaty, are you going to Beth Isreal?

On another note, since I'm trying to clean my apt up a bit and just found the old paperwork - my PCP recommended I see Dr. Ray Chang or Dr. Pam Yee at Meridian Medical Group.  They're MDs who also practice "alternative" medicine as a complement (much like my PCP).  They're hideously expensive.  Has anyone gone there or heard anything about them?

http://www.meridianmedical.org/index.html

Never heard of them sweaty but I do know there's a fair number of complementary things done at NYU.  NYU also has a full time cancer nutritionist who is up on the alternative. She's free to anyone in the NYU system.  I have number if you want to call me.

The Post Op Recovery room isn't too bad. It has 2 different areas.  One is the big are with "sheets" but it also has some private rooms also.  When I had my port put in, they ended up putting me in the private room area (cubicle) because I would be there for a few hours.

Hugs,

call if you want to talk.

flash

Thank you all.

24 hours from now, I'll have a new body.  Very odd.  Will they be As? Bs? Cs?  It's a mystery. 

To be continued.

Linda,

Good luck tomorrow. I'll be thinking good thoughts for you and sending positive energy your way.

xo,

Deb

Thinking of you sweaty girl and knowing that all is going well in surgery and recovery! How do I know that? Because I said so!!!!!!! or as the gods know there will be hell to pay.

sending positive thoughts sweaty...hope to hear all is well!

God Bless!

Has anyone heard from Sweaty??

Linda:Sending positive thoughts your way.

Good wishes to you tomorrow Linda!

Hope all went well Sweaty...

Lilah

Hi Ladies, just wanted to let you know all went well. I was out of surgery on time and home by noon

I have been sleeping most of the day and evening but I wanted to thank you all for your well wishes as they really helped except for the IV it took 3 sticks ):

Two words:  the first is SURREAL.  I woke up on Thurs with D sized titties and woke up after anesthesia with Bs, or As, or whatever mini-me's they are.  It's just - weird.  I have skin sensation, so that's good, and pain, which is normal, so also good I guess.  Nips are hidden from view, which is good b/c I can only handle so much shock.  I wasn't expecting to end up this much smaller, but I guess a whole lotta nasty tissue is gone, and that's good.

I'm afraid I might have ended up with hamburger bun breasts, but we shall see.  I surely hope not.  I wonder if I can get implants to make up for some lost size, after rads, or if that's not do-able (or would not be insured and therefore a gazillion dollars). 

I might have incentive to lose weight now, though - b/c my fatass with big titties was at least proportional...now it's just weird and wrong.  On the other hand, I've happily eaten every last morsel of food put in front of me at the hospital (that food was fine!) and enjoyed my 2nd Ave Deli takeout - matzoh ball soup for lunch and corned beef on rye w/coleslaw & pickles for dinner.

Stayed overnight at NYU, felt like a loser-wuss, but also felt like I'd been hit by a truck and couldn't possibly get out of bed.  Was ready to roll by morning.  I liked the night staff better than the day, but no real complaints.   

When I decided to stay overnight they did put me in a real room, my roommate was very ill and in a lot of pain so there was a lot of hubbub surounding her, I didn't get much sleep.  I didn't hear any helicopters and didn't have the part of the room with the window, so no idea what the view was like.  So much for first dibs.  On the other hand, I was close to the bathroom.  And I peed like a champ!

The word of the day today is VICODIN.  My new fav wonderdrug.

Two drains, supposedly PS will remove them on Weds am. office visit.    Have to make app't with Guth for path discussion - and please, God if you exist amid all the random, let this be the end of it.  I had a bad feeling that the MRI would discover a second area, so was in a weird way prepared for that bit of bad news.  But my gut is telling me I'm done now, so if the report is bad I won't be prepared, and well, that won't be good at all.  So, please, c'mon....I let them take out a freaking ton of tissue, let the margins be clean.  And let this not have gone invasive so I can skip the chemo.......

It's 3:30am, I'm gonna take some more vicodin & go back to sleep.

Glad things went well on your end, OG!!!  

Lilah - I had the Cookie & London Virginia removal and smush, lift and separate, boob job.  Not quite a lumpectomy but not a mastectomy either.  The middle ground for this Grasshoppah.

Sweaty, so happy to hear from you!!!

I'm so glad you are eating and posting

Sweaty & OG:  Sending you positive thoughts!