by Susan | Feb 21, 2018 | Medical
We were on our way to Kansas City. I was to have surgery on Thursday, January 11 and Mike was to have an EGD with dilation on Friday, January 12 then we would drive home. We got to Lawrence without any problems and had dinner with Roderick and his girlfriend....
by Susan | Feb 14, 2018 | Caregiving, Medical
For the last four holiday seasons, I’ve felt grateful for my family because of Mike’s health. This season was a little different because of mine. Don’t worry I’ll get through this, it may not be as easy as we thought but I’ll survive. I was very worried about Mike...
by Susan | Feb 7, 2018 | Caregiving, Medical
The lumpectomy and sentinel biopsy was a breeze. I hardly had any pain. I did sleep a lot when we got home. And I got to John’s band concert on the next Tuesday, sans camera, but I was there. I would have had to go to great lengths to get his picture anyway. He was...
by Susan | Jan 31, 2018 | EGC, Medical
The lumpectomy and sentinel node biopsy was scheduled for December 14. I would go in for the radioactive seed placement the day before. As I understood it this was the placement of a small radioactive device so the surgeon could see the edges of the tumor and would...
by Susan | Jan 24, 2018 | Medical
We were back in Kansas City for my first visits with the breast surgeon and breast oncologist the week after Thanksgiving. I started out with another mammogram (that’s three in two months if you’re counting) and an ultrasound. I was able to have lunch between the...
by Susan | Jan 16, 2018 | Medical
These words have changed my life in several ways since January of 2013. But this time it was personal. In November and December of 2014, we had traveled six times in eight weeks to KU Med Center as they were trying to find lung cancer that a local practitioner thought...
by Susan | Jan 10, 2018 | EGC, Horses, Medical
My day was completely derailed. It is Friday, November 10, eight days before my birthday. John’s fall play has the final dress rehearsal tonight and performances on Saturday and Monday. I had the biopsy on Monday and the doctor said that if she didn’t call by noon...
by Susan | Jan 2, 2018 | Medical
The day of the biopsy was here. I had a hair appointment first thing that morning and John had a League Choir clinic that afternoon and concert that night in Ellis, about 70 miles away. My hairdresser was my high school classmate and her mother was a breast cancer...
by Susan | Dec 27, 2017 | Medical
I’ve gotten too good at waiting rooms. A long time ago I figured out that I didn’t want to read or even look at whatever magazines were in the waiting room. So, I would take books or magazines of my own to read. With the advent of smartphones, I found an app that...
by Susan | Dec 20, 2017 | Medical
It’s the 3rd of October. Last Monday, after I returned from Summit, I had my sort of annual mammogram. I had the first one when I was 35 and had some cysts and have had them fairly regularly since. Sometimes they required an ultrasound or more checking mostly...
