What a week!

Just a quick note before bed to update everyone on Mom and me. I am the easy one, my pain is subsiding, so no surgery!! Yeah, it was definitely a Cyst and it went away by itself. By Wednesday the pain was merely gone and today I was doing back flips (not really).

Mom on the other hand, is good, but through a couple loops into the week. Instead of chemo starting today she had a portacath (sp?) put in. This is basically an IV entrance site placed up on her chest under her skin. Because of the lumphs they can only draw blood, and place IV's on her right arm, well her right arm has veins even then most talented nurse or doctor can't get in without 2 0r 3 pokes! OWE. So this portacath with do all the work, the can draw blood from, give her meds in it, basicly no more pricks until they take it out (which will be after all her chemo treatments are done.) To put it in they did have to put her under a genral, everthing went well. The surgery took under 30mins.

The one thing we were not expecting was the amount of pain she is experincing today. But every hour it seems to lesson and tomorrow she should be good. The funniest thing (yes she is lauhing about it too) is for the next week she is not to lift her right arm above her shoulder and not carry more then 10-15lbs with that arm. Well because of the lymphodema, she cant lift more then 3lbs with her left arm and it is still being stretched out from surgery so it is rather painfull to lift above her head!! We decided that gives her a combine weight of 18lbs, poor Matteo he is 22 or 23lbs and lets not even get into trying to put a shirt on! Oh my gosh, what is a girl to do?!? I am just about ready to hire nurse!!! HAHA.

Hope you all are doing weel, we (the kids and I) are off to the water park tomorrow with some good friends! Hopefully we will get some good pictures!

Oh, yes and Chemo will start on Tuesday now!!