Masterpiece

The human body.

It is an amazing masterpiece. Really.

ok...yes..it is a masterpiece that is perfect at the beginning and continually gets worse as time goes on. But, during the journey, it is an amazing creation that continually defies the odds.

How do I prove this you might ask.....

look at my eyes and see the eyelashes growing back!!!!

I complain and wa la....it changes!


And about that body..well..this body, mine, specifically...I now have a timetable for the perky new boobs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It seems like so long ago that I started that mantra for myself as a way of coping and looking at the silver lining(LOL...the silver lining of cancer...that should be an oxymoron!) Anyway it would now appear that in the end it will be almost exactly a year from when I was diagnosed to when I will have my finished new boobs!

Starting Dec. 4th with the surgery to put in the expander implant. This will be more painful than the mastectomy the doctor said since she will move the muscle. I am not looking forward to that part except for the fact that I don't directly use those muscles to do basics like walk.....however I will again have the drains.....yuck....sigh...not a favorite part either.

Then 2-3 weeks after the surgery I can start the filling up process! That can take 6-10 weeks she guessed....but basically it will depend on me and how I can endure the stretching/pain and how fast I want to go. But if it takes 10 weeks that puts me at the beginning of March to be done with that.

Then we wait. We let them....settle! Well that and make sure that is truly what I want and then 3 months later we do the surgery to put in the actual implant.

And of course the recovery from that which should be minimal she said and then I am done!!!!!!!

Seems a long way off. But so does Dec. 4th...and then at other times it seems scarily close!


That sounded a bit weird that of all the stuff this surgery is more scary than the others. I don't have a solid explanation. Its just a feeling...maybe its because my mind has finally come out of the shock it was in all summer! Regardless I am doing it and I know it will be fine.

But before that I have to rearrange the girls rooms, finish the Christmas shopping, do a GS PJ party and oh yes..Thanksgiving..which mom will cook(hint hint..j/k, she always does and it is wonderful). So, I should probably quit my whining and go finish the swaps for the PJ party while I can:)

Blog ya later-
K