Breast Cancer, The Journey Continued

Breast Cancer, The Journey Continued

Thursday Morning May 5 2011 (eight post in this series).

I have attached Kelly and Damon's latest letter. As you can see, the surgery is tomorrow. We are all very emotional right now. Tomorrow we will post a couple of update blogs as we get information about the surgery while we are at the hospital

Jim and Pat

Hello Family and Friends!

The weather in Colorado this week is spectacular – it’s beautiful spring weather!

It’s been an interesting week as we prepare for my surgery on Friday.  Some of you may know that we had a little excitement with Molly earlier in the week, but all has turned out well.  Molly has been having some quirky little symptoms which we were attributing to anxiety but our pediatrician and a neurologist felt that we needed to rule out a brain stem malformation.  The MRI went very smoothly on Monday and we got the great news on Tuesday.  Yet one more thing to be thankful for!

The reality of my surgery is setting in and we’re preparing for the challenges of the next few weeks.  Surgery is scheduled for 11:00 at Littleton Hospital on Friday and should last about four hours.  The plan is for me to spend one night in the hospital and come home late Saturday afternoon or early evening.  I’m really looking forward to having the surgery behind me and moving into the recovery stage.

The girls will go to my sister’s house tomorrow night and stay until Saturday or Sunday.  We’re thinking they’ll be too busy to miss us because one of our nephews doesn’t have school on Friday so they’ll have a great time.  There’s also a school carnival that night so that should be so much fun for them.

Some interesting parts of the recovery process include:
No showers for two weeks
No driving for 2-3 weeks
Very little range of motion with my arms
Weekly doctor appointments

Maybe this means I’ll have time to catch up on some reading and computer projects.

My parents have brought their bus down to Chatfield campground for the next two weeks.  It will be nice to have them so close!

We thank you for all of the prayers and well wishes!!

Love,

Kelly and Damon