Here we go!

The blog has turned into Lynn updates currently but that is ok, we will get back to regularly scheduled programing soon!

The new news this morning is we are headed out a little earlier then expect they want us at he surgery center at 7:45am. YEAH, in earlier out earlier as we see. Everything yesterday went well. Mom injections with radioactive ink went well, she was just glowing during American Idol!! HAHA!

A big thank you goes out to everyone who has offered to help out and who has helped out. We have such great family and friends! We have enjoyed great meals from a few, Thank you. We have had family said us awesome information on diet and nutrition, and yummy recipes! And big thank you to Noni, Nanny Zoe and Gramps, and Jennifer, whom are shuffling the kids over the next 24hr so that they will not be in my hair or at the house so Lynn can have a piece and quite on her return home. Oh yes and a thank you to the Kansas City crowd I hear a rumor that Velvet cream popcorn just might be buckled up next to Popop as I type!! OH MY GOSH, words can not express. Also to anyone I have forgot, thank you, you all are amazing and have been amazing.

Most of all thank you for your prayers and the your prayers for today. As you say your prayers today also keep in you prayers our good friend's Andy and Jeannette. At the same time mom goes in for her surgery this morning their son, Henry 23months, will be going in for heart surgery at UCLA, amazingly enough Henry surgery should be patient just kie moms! Technology is amazing!! Thank you we love you all and I will post late afternoon when we return home!

A little poke here, a little poke there!

Just as we thought today marks the first day of surgery prep for mom! Today she has to go get all her labs done. You know they need a CBC like they order on all those doctor shows, plus a bunch of other three letter checked box things! There might even be one last x-ray or ultrasound today also, my guess is to make sure the cut the right part out!

Then tomorrow, Wednesday, she gets to head over to AG hospital in the afternoon for what they said would about an hour to get the dye (as I understand it) done for the lymph node part of this whole thing. For those who want more info on the procedure Google search Sentinel node biopsy.

After that the tough part comes, no food or drink (including water) after mid-night...How will she do it?

In reality, it should be that tough, she is currently scheduled to arrived at the Surgery Center (or as they, the doctors, all call it CSI) at 9:30am. We were told that time could change and would only change earlier not later. Good news. And as long as all goes as planed she should be home that same afternoon around 3:00pm. The surgery only last about an hour, as it is planed now they will start 10:30. Then you have to wait a certain amount of time after to make sure she is stable and all before they release.

Mom is doing great. She is charging around here trying to get a few things done so after Thursday she can just lay round and not look and piles of things wanting to do something about them. Her main concern now is she just doesn't want to hurt. I understand that, and some of that reading they send home..ouch...then you google search.....double ouch.....vicadin anyone?!?

Oh and on another note, the paperwork said she cannot drive for a week after the surgery. Oh yeah a week, guess that's why I am around! HAHA, now I am going to have to buckle Sam, Serafina, Matteo and Nana in every time we leave the compound! For now I am off to make breakfast.

Happy Tuesday

No New Boob!

Today my mom had her long awaited appointment with her surgeon and it went great. We all feel like we finally have some questions to our answers.

1. He said congratulations you caught it extremely early, it is still very small.

2. There are lots of treatments available for this type, we/ my mom have choosen his recommendation witch is to just remove the lump followed up with radiation. He was very positive that this would yield the best outcome, ie complete recover, remission (whatever the term).

3. As for checking for weather the cancer is in the lymph nodes, there is a new technique they use so that they don't have to remove all or as many lymph nodes during surgery. Which is great because I guess removing lymph nodes can cause problems in the arm. So the day before surgery they will inject a dye that will show which nodes the blood from the tumor goes to first, as they would be the first nodes to get cancer. Then they only have to remove those first nodes to test for cancer in the lymph system.

So when will all this take place, NEXT WEEK!! Yeah we could not be more excited about that. The waiting game is no fun. The doctor asked, when would you like to do this? Mom answered, tomorrow. He laughed and said well we have to get insurance aproval so I cant to tomorrow but how about we get the ball rolling Monday. So Monday starts everything and the lump removal surgery will be on Thursday, as long as all goes as plan.

That is all for now, thanks for everyones prayers and love, as always I will do my best to keep the blog up todate next week!

Sam Turned Seven!!

I am going to be cliche for a minute, but it is amazing how fast time goes by. Honestly it seems like it was merely a year ago when Sam joined our family a wild, little boy full of love and excitement for the world. Now he just celebrated his 7th birthday. He is a big brother to two siblings, can read, add, subtract, and do other mathematics. He is picking up Spanish and Mandarin, is becoming a great artist, can ride a two wheel bike, and loves to dance in his all boy hip-hop class. We are so proud of who he is and just relish in his love for the world and excitement for things around him. Happy Birthday little man!

His party was this last weekend and in true Regusci/Foster form we decide to have a lobster party for a seventh birthday. Complete with races, fights and carrot cutting!!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

CONGRATS!!! (with a little sadness)

We are very excited that our Uncle Jon has just received the exciting news that he was excepted into Dartmouth School of Business were he will be studying to get his master. However that means he will be moving across the country some time in August or September. Sadness. But so much excitement at the same time. We do look forward to having a great excuse to go visit Boston and it will make major holiday's even more exciting because Uncle Jon will be coming home!! It will be hard to get use to the fact that he is no longer 5 minutes away and most likely wont be here for ever birthday but the adventures he will experience and the adventures we will get to take to go and visit him will be well worth it all.

Congratulation Uncle Jon!! We Love You and cant wait to come visit you at Dartmouth!

And what post is worth reading without pictures:


Jon holding Serafina, just about 1 hour old!


Ringing in the New Year



Visiting at the office!


Even though we don't have a picture of it, Serafina's first steps were to Uncle Jon inside the house right before we ran outside to tell everyone else and take these pictures!


Camping in the Sequoia's

Teaching us about airplanes.


Letting us borrow his bathtub when we had no power!

I will not explain.



Helping put together our play structure.



Playing

Thanksgiving.


Teaching us how to drum.



and how to have fun.

Girls Weekend

What does one do after hearing she has breast cancer? Well in our family you go on a girls weekend. But not just any girls weekend. You go with your good friend and trainer, Alma, who is in a fitness modeling competition and surround yourself with physically fit, scantily clad males and female. It was quite the weekend. We spend Saturday helping Alma prepare for her competition, and then hung around at a few photo shoots. Then that evening was the competition. Afterward we all went to Cheesecake Factory were we proceed to have drinks and eat lots of carbs!! It was a great evening/ weekend. Complete with a fire arlam at 2:30am going off in our hotel. Yes we had to evacauate and yes there really was a fire (small tiny one) but the fireman came and we sat on a curb with about 200 hundered other pajamed people while the fireman made a sweep of the building. All in all it was a great weekend and we had a great time. Alma placed 4th, and will be competing again in Vegas, wohow!

Enjoy our pictures for the event:

Drinks at the cheesecake factory!

Our 4th place winner!

The girls.

The winner circle.

The Boys.

A boy pumping up his muscles!!

The two cutest girls!!

Our Nana

For those who have not heard last Friday my Mom was diagnose with breast cancer (Invasive Ductal Carcinoma). We don't have much information for now. Today she had an appointment with her GP and he reassured her that right now it looks like it was caught early but we really don't know much once they perform the surgery to remove the lump they will be able to give us more info on the cancer and the treatment plan, etc. Then we will know a lot more.

Right now she has an appointment with her surgeon on May 14th and her surgery should be/will be scheduled within a week of that date according to her GP. Her surgeon is one of the best in the area so we are grateful for that. We are all doing great, mom is still working and getting her kids ready for state testing. Her principal and lead-teacher (whom is also one of her best friends) are working closely with her so that they can take over her class during testing if the need arises.

We are very thankful that this a very beatable cancer and mom is talking about what cup size she might get when this is all said and done!! =)

For now, please keep us in your prayers. As we get new information or updates I will post them here. So please check here and feel free to leave a comment.