LIFE IS GOOD!

     I have finished fifteen of the sixteen chemotherapy treatments today, one more next Monday. Whooo!!!! Then it is time to gear up for surgery, I am sooooo EXCITED, nervous and scared, but mostly just EXCITED. I am thrilled to regain my shape and then some, it will be a process with the final results not coming until fall but I will have a shape. I have to laugh when I think about the coconut bras with the grass skits and the similarities with the tissue expanders, they can be a fright. I met with a WONDERFUL plastic surgeon and can only thank GOD for his compassion and sensitivity. HE is awesome!!!! We set up a surgery date of March 16, that is wayyy sooner than I though I could have surgery. My counts were pretty low today, praying they rebound before surgery or it won't happen. It is about an hour and a half surgery, did I mention I hate surgery?
   We are placing Allegran 550cc, 14 wide medium profile expanders that will be filled a little during surgery and  then VERY rapidly in the following weeks. This process can be painful and especially if you are getting it done so quickly but due to the radiation time frame we must fill FAST. So, although I am thrilled, I am scared of the possibility of pain, although with my mastectomy I didn't even need a Tylenol. Amazing huh? God has carried me through every aspect of this journey and I am not doubting his plan, so once again FIX YOUR EYES ON ME, Heather. Okay Jesus. So surgery on the 16th fill, fill, fill until I am happy with size and the skin is holding up, then 30 something rads with a few boosts to the tumor site. The radiation can affect outcome but this dr has experience with expander, rads, exchange. MD Anderson protocol is the newest and best on radiation and positive reconstruction outcomes and that is what we are following. Please pray for me in this leg of this journey.
    It was so fun to try on the implants with a fitted t-shirt on and look like myself again....AWESOME. I had to take a few pics....I will share one although I do look like Miss Puff off of Spongebob due to the steroids, not for long though:) So, ignore the pudgy water belly, chubby arms and swollen face. I could go on, But WON'T !

Yeah...boobies!!!! Or as Dorinda likes to say...Boobalicious! I am so thankful to be almost done with chemotherapy. It has been ROUGH! Thank you again to all of the people that have made up the slack, held my hand and my head up.  I love you all.! Thank you Jesus for being my savior, healer, comforter and most of all my heavenly father. I will spend my life serving you and edifying you by telling others what you have done in my life.  Life is GOOD!!!!