So what's up these days?
1. I'm still not back to work. I was supposed to go back on the 21st. Then felt like that was a little over zealous so I changed it to the 28th. Then my husband, parents and boss weren't comfortable with me traveling to Madison for a meeting (that I was REALLY looking forward to going to!!!!!) so now I can't come back to work until August 4th.
2. I'm on a shit load of narcotics so I can't drive.
3. I love Ellen. I would love to go see Ellen in person (obviously I've watched a LOT of Ellen during my weeks off of work)
4. My boobs are the weirdest looking things I've ever seen! These expanders are soooo odd. Even more odd when they're not fully filled. Picture a plastic bouncy ball all deflated and stuck in your chest, slowly getting filled with saline. So bizarre. Oh and I feel like I'm engorged all the time. Anyone have a breast pump handy??
5. Yes, I DID put two sticky notes on my boobs right before they knocked me out for surgery. Left boob said "Dear Dr. Suppes... Go get that lumpy sonofabitch! Warn regards, Moya.
Right boob said "Dear Dr. Puckett... I do NOT want Double Ds despite what my husband might tell you after I'm knocked out cold. Your friend, Moya"
I really felt like I needed the very last word on this one!
6. "Fills" are weird, too. And a bit awkward. Picture this.... I'm laying on a table, gown open in front, exposing my deformed, weird looking deflated bouncy balls with just two bumps and a scar across each side, my older and somewhat serious surgeon on one side, a younger somewhat serious resident on the other side (must have read from the same book they studied in surgical school), an older nurse and my husband all in the same SMALL exam room staring at the bumps on my chest with no nipples. Awkward. So... I try to lighten the mood and say, "Hey... So you know what's funny? I'm really cold right now and you'd never even know it."
Okay, so Mark laughed and said the old surgeon chuckled a little, but geez... Tough crowd.
7. I don't remember the first week after surgery?! Apparently I saw a few friends but had to get the low down from Mark. Drugs are so weird!!
8. I have to wear this really awful ugly bra for six weeks. However, I'm starting to actually fill it out! That's a first! And apparently at the hospital, I told my nurse I wear a size 38A. Is there even such a thing? Again.... Drugs.
9. Apparently nobody (surgeons and oncologist) likes that my port (where they put my chemo in) is about to pop out of my skin. So this Tuesday the 29th I get more surgery to have it moved up. Hey, what's one more... Kinda starting to like it in a sick sorta way.
10. I love my family, my friends, my doctors, my nurses and Ellen. Oh, and my eyebrows are starting to grow back
Ciao!
MB
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