Alright Already

Do any of you ever turn on the news or read it and find that at least one story a day, commercial a break or breaking news interruption mirrors something in your daily life? Well I for one am sick and tired of it! Ever since I found the lump all I see is cancer..and not just any, but breast cancer and that's not even counting all of the Komen ads for the upcoming race in STL this weekend.

It happened again this morning as I opened CNN...scrolled through the news stories and there, two thirds of the way down was..."Surviving Triple Negative Breast Cancer"...what are the odds...really? Of course when I read it I realized once again I was an anomaly in the reality that we call life. Apparently it mostly affects young African American women who don't breastfeed.....the only part of that which applies to me is the young....hmmmmmmm. I also didn't really like the picture they painted of the survival rate, but that could be because I had just spent the morning getting an echo cardiogram, having blood drawn to check my counts(which are good btw-YAY), having my lymph node biopsy drained b/c there was excess fluid that wasn't allowing me to close my arm, having the incision checked and oh yes, being told the results of my BRAC genetic test. Which led me to this point because you see...I am a carrier. I have the marker for the BRAC2 gene which can mean early breast cancer of the very aggressive kind(nooooo, really?) that can and most likely will come back(again yay for the foresight to go with the perky new boobs) and also ovarian cancer! WAAAAIIIIITTTTT
WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Hold on a second...can you repeat that for me? Because for a second there I thought you said ovarian cancer...you know...the one that does still kill nowadays....
Oh.....you did.


Sooooo..it would appear that I will also be having my ovaries removed. And you all thought perky new boobs was my bonus...oh no, she has also won, in the category of K's insane life changes, the ability...wait, lack of ability to have any more kids. Ok, granted those of you who know me at all know that L and B are all I want....well, I admit to occasional babyitis, but then I remember how much I love sleep and it goes away. Soooo, no ovaries....that means no periods too(right? I'm gonna have to check that..it darn well better! :P)....well maybe its not so bad, and they did say it was outpatient so heck I will get to go home and sleep in my very own bed that night......o..alright, if you must.

I am thinking at this point there really can't be anything else they can shock me with...I did however knock on wood after typing that just to be safe:)

But other than that ..it was a good day, oh wait I forgot to mention that the girls started Girl Scout Camp today and poor L had to come home at noon cause she had a fever and still does and is asleep, poor baby. But B had a wonderful time and I am doing well today.

And...I still have hair...but the clock is tickin' on that one!

Anyway-Love to you all-
Blog ya later-
K