June 8, 2009

Today was difficult because I felt like I had a fever and everything ached. I disinvited our dinner guest (had wine with him instead) and had toast and butter for supper. Bubba went to the Emergency Vet yesterday because he suddenly couldn't use his back legs and Georgina and Rigdon had to bring him in the house using a towel to hold up his back legs. The emergency vet doesn't know what is going on so we are taking him to Davis vet school on Wednesday. All his records of the laminectomy and the rods put in his back are available there and we really liked the care and attention Bubba received. It is very strange to be going to bed without letting Bubba out and putting him down for the night. He loves to hear a story before bed. (when do folks know I am joking?)

Tomorrow is my Stanford Cancer center visit hoping to get a schedule for the chemotherapy, I see the oncologist to get the last multiple lymph node removal report, the surgeon to check on the incisions (gross in my opinion, go from underarm across, stop for about 2 inches and then another incision to the other underarm with a lot of holes and scar tissue), and the plastic surgeon's P.A. to put a few more cc's in the boobettes.

A good friend of mine said, "I hope you don't  mind my asking; aren't you glad you no longer  have those pendulous things getting in your way?" I said, "Yes, I am fine about their being gone."  For me, it is a whole new body type.  I just hope I can get my stomach not to stick out farther than my boobettes. 

Georgina stayed an extra day to visit the cancer center with me tomorrow. Glad to have her here, but we are starting to go back to little snipes between sisters that every one who has a sister knows about. We have had a good visit and she has provided Rigdon and me with many interesting meals and made the preparations all look simple. I wish every female had a sister or a friend like a sister. Of course the blood relatives you can never get rid of like a friend you can dump.  Enough, Rigdon is threatening to put me to bed so I can get up early for the Stanford trip tomorrow.