Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

1.  Today is Jon's birthday. I called and he was having a friend come over with pizza to celebrate his day.  We are the same age for one day.  He always tells me how much he loves me.  We are close and I treasure that relationship.
2.  I had surgery this morning and it took about an hour.  The anesthesia was not fun and I had a hard time waking up from it but it was not as bad as previous surgeries.  I was sick though, and needed a throw-up bag all evening.  I was too sick to eat today so we saved the meal from Jaymie for tomorrow.  I was still out of it when the doctor talked to Wayne so I didn't get to ask her questions about what went on. The reason I had the surgery was because I had a breast full of infection from several abscesses that formed about a year ago after a mammogram.  3 months ago they did a biopsy to check it and they were pretty nasty.  Blood and pus came out continually for months so surgery was really the only option.  There was a new procedure available.  The rep was in surgery and showed the doctor what to do to apply cells from a powdered pig bladder in and on my incisions.  They left the incisions open to drain with the bandage on it.  I bled a lot, with blood penetrating 8 layers of gauze tonight.  I called the nurse to see if that was normal.  "Not really", she said and if it does not ease up tomorrow, I will need to go back in.
3.  I called Mom to tell her I was OK.  The girls called Wayne while I was asleep.  Shon and Kee called too.  I do not feel well.  Hopefully I can sleep tonight.
4.  The pain is not as bad as I was anticipating.  Maybe I am just used to constant pain from other things, but I didn't  take the prescription
or even Ibuprofen.  I was hurting more before the surgery from the abscesses.
5.  I  called the nurse for a little more info and she said they could not fix everything and that I will have some deformity. UGH!

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