Visalia

So Megan is in town taking care of me, she used to live here and now lives in Texas. We have been enjoying all of the local food favourites. Rosa's, See's Candies, and Splash Cafe clam chowder. We even thought about going to the coast, but it would be way too much for me, thank God Costco has frozen splash! I love it! It has been really fun eating all of this great food and hanging out with Megan getting caught up on everything and everyone he he he :) Megan has been sending text messages to her mom, sister and husband flaunting all the great food we have been chowing on. They are so mad and I think her mom has disinherited her. So funny! I guess they should have came out here too. And Mumsi, you really should be happy that your daughter is enjoying herself and is so unselfish that she came all the way out here to do a good deed and take care of me. That should double her inheritance, not lessen it! You raised a very giving person! No more mean text messages, Much Love Janice & Megan

Flowers

Heidi's parents Dan and Linda brought sunflowers after surgery. They are so pretty. Yesterday the doorbell rings and there are more flowers. The YMCA sent a really gorgeous bouquet. I took pictures of both to share with everyone. They make me smile and smell great! Thank you so much! They make me smile!

recovering and think pink pic

I fell pretty good so far. I get twinges of pain now and then, but nothing like I thought. The port surgery was much worse mostly because I couldn't move my neck. I have a lot better movement with this one so I am happy. Megan is here making sure that I do not get up too much or do anything crazy, like go to the mall. Megan forgot to pack pj's so I thought we should just pop right out and go get some. We could use my mom's handicap placarded and run into old navy, it isn't even 500 feet of walking. Megan went ballistic. I mean really! It's not that far and I can walk. We didn't go, and I am glad, I think it really could have been too much, but it was funny to watch Megan go nuts. he he he.

Think pink took my picture before I started treatment. I have been waiting to see them so I went to the photographer's website and saw this one! I love it. So I e-mailed her and hope to hear back soon. I'm so excited!!!!

Recovering from surgery

I am home, yeah!! and recovering in the recliner. The surgery went well. My lymph nodes were clean, there is one more screening they need to do before they are 100% cleared, but right now it looks good. I will find out next week on Wednesday or Thursday if the partial mastectomy was successful or if I need to go back and have a full mastectomy. Pray that this one worked, I do not want to have another surgery! Of course if I do the bonus is that I would get a full fakey instead of no reconstruction option.
Megan is here and doing a very good job making sure I don't do anything more than sit here and recover. Linda and Vicki came by with gifts, THANK YOU, and my family spent the afternoon hanging out and relaxing with me :)

Surgery in the morning

I check in at 6:00 am and go in to surgery at 8:30 am. My end time is 9:53 am. I laughed when she told me the exact end time. Recovery will take about 45 - 60 min. And then I get to go home! After my last surgery and knowing how their schedules really go, I might be home by 2:00 :) I will post when I can to let everyone know how it went. Of course if anything goes wrong I will have to stay overnight, I really really really want to come home, but will stay if I have to...... Have a good night! Love Janice

Surgery on Wednesday

I'm almost ready, I have a little more to do to get ready. The goal is to get everything done so I can have an enjoyable recovery. Tomorrow I need to go to the bank, the grocery store, fill my prescriptions, and a few more things around the house. I go pretty early on Wednesday morning so at least I don't have to fast for as long as last time. My port surgery was late in the afternoon and I could eat all day, that was pretty terrible.
Also, I am thinking about joining some breast cancer walks. Kera is doing Avon's San Fransisco walk in July. I might do that with her. There is another walk in October for Susan G. Komen. Right now I want to do both, but that is a lot of fundraising to do, almost $5,000. I like the October one because it is breast cancer month and the month I was diagnosed. It is Oct 2-4th and my first doctors appointment was on October 3rd. Kind of cool. I'll let you know which one I do, maybe both and if you want to join or donate let me know :)
Goodnight! Janice

Scary Movies and Friends from Texas

After weeks of begging I agreed to go see My Bloody Valentine. Heidi really wanted to go see it and it was the 3D and 'going during the day so I wouldn't be scared leaving the theater' that sold me. Well, we ended up going a little later than we hoped, but still got out pretty early so we could watch princess bride or fern gully to bring peace and happiness back into the world. The movie scared the crap out of me!!!!! The 3D was really cool but not sure if it was worth it. I am very proud of myself for sitting there the entire movie though. During the previews I knew I was in the wrong place and way too close! We sat really close and 3D puts things in your lap already so I think it made it double scary. I'm not even exaggerating about how scared I was either. After the movie we went to the Gap, that made me a little better but I still wasn't breathing right. We went by Longs to take out blood pressure and heart rates, ok, my blood pressure was great, but my heart rate was 97!!!!! OMG! 45 min later I was still near "work out" heart rate!!!! It was good for a scary movie, sometimes they are pretty lame, but I really liked this. Heidi was scared too, she jumped so much there was more popcorn on the floor all around her than she got in her mouth. So I think you should only go see it if your heart is good, there really should be a warning or something. And of course everyone else was teenagers and we felt like little old ladies sitting in the front gasping for air and throwing popcorn all over the place, they probably had more fun watching us than the movie. he he he
Megan, my best friend from high school is coming to help take care of me after surgery and while Heidi is gone. I'm so excited to see her and just hang out, but I wish it was for fun. We should have a lot of time together, but I will probably be sleeping or in pain most of the time. She will be here Wednesday the day of surgery and will stay until Monday. It should be a good way to recover! :)
That's about all I have going on right now. I have been spending my time getting over chemo and getting ready for surgery. I want to get everything clean, get some more pj tops and stock the house with everything I could need for a few weeks so I can just stay home and recover.