Recovery
Posted: March 3, 2011 Filed under: breast cancer, Surgery | Tags: breast cancer, cancer battle, cancer diagnosis, DIEP, hospital, Houston, ICU, Methodist Hospital, microsurgery, new boobs, plastic surgery, recovery, surgery, Vancomycin 3 CommentsI arrived back at the ICU this morning with Amy Hoover who will be staying the night with Nancy tonight. Let me pause to thank Amy and Christy Burrmann for lunch yesterday and to Staci Martinez for sitting with me all day. That’s a lot to put up with.
Nancy is very alert today and in a very good mood. Her pain is under control and she is eating well. The nurses here have been terrific, Cindy and Carol have both been very attentive and helpful – they don’t mind applying chapstick. And David the PCA even fetched coffee for me and Amy. Overall this is the best care she has had during her hospital stays and it’s generally been pretty good.
They checked on her every hour last night so she didn’t get too much sleep though. They have ordered a room for her but they won’t let her out of ICU until she sits up in a chair for an hour. They just wheeled it in, this is gonna hurt.
Nancy is doing well
Posted: March 2, 2011 Filed under: breast cancer, Surgery | Tags: breast cancer, cancer battle, cancer diagnosis, DIEP, hospital, Methodist Hospital, microsurgery, new boobs, plastic surgeon, reconstruction 5 CommentsShe wants to express her thanks for all the love, support and well wishes. She is still awake but in a bit of pain. They are not fooling around with it at least and they just upped her clicker along with a nice big slug of morphine. I’m going home once she is asleep.
The results do look fantastic, I can see why the Dr S’s were so proud. We have some tough days ahead while she recovers but everything looks great so far.
She does have limited mobility with her arms so you will likely be stuck with my dry updates for another day or two. Hopefully Nancy will bring her inimitable style back to this space real soon.
Update 3
Posted: March 2, 2011 Filed under: breast cancer, Surgery | Tags: breast cancer, DIEP, hospital, Houston, Methodist Hospital, microsurgery, new boobs, plastic surgery, reconstruction Leave a commentAs of about 2 pm central, they have finished one side and starting the other. I’m guessing another 2 to 3 hours to finish.
The Pink Underbelly 