Sleep, Sleep and More Sleep

Surgery went well, according to the Doctor. I wouldn't know. I wasn't awake.

Al and I arrived at the hospital around 8 yesterday morning. It was a very long morning involing checking in one building, walking to a second to have the sentinnel node biopsy started and walking back to the first to get ready for surgery.

The start of the sentinnel node surgery was gross. The nurse injected blue radioactive dye in to my breast, four shots around the nipple. They hurt. Ugh, ugh, ugh. Then she had me massage my breast for 5 minutes in order to make sure the dye was sent to the appropriate nodes. It would have been a lot more fun if Al had done the massage. I didn't even suggest it because the idea seemed just to weird . The last step was having pictures that tracked the dye and the nodes that sucked up the dye by lying down while a machine, a lot like a CAT scan tracked tracked and took pictures of the process. After that the nurse (who I loved-she was kind and funny) Al and I walked (I was in my jeans and a hospital johnny) from Nuclear medicine back to Ambulatory care. We made a cute parade.`

Al's folks, Albert and Ben were waiting for us in the ambulatory care waiting room. It was wonderful to see them. The boys wanted to be there and Al's folks wanted to do all they could to help us out. I am amazing lucky. I have a wonderful family and my in-laws are the best in the world.
Before I knew it surgery was over and I was ready to come home. I slept most of yesterday and most of today too. I've been awake for two whole hours now. A new record.