I had a busy doctor day today. My morning started off at St. Mark's to get the sutures taken out (from my port). That took all of 2 minutes so I got in to work at 8:30 am as usual. This reminds me that I got the bill for the surgery last night. It was a whopping $10,989! Talk about sticker shock. I don't know what I expected but I guess this is worth it. This little implant is going to save me a bunch of needle sticks for the next 6 months. When I go back to get it removed, I can keep it. I think I might do that because the port implant cost $1702 (of the $10,989). I don't have many things I own that cost that much money. And, since it will be a part of my body for awhile, I might as well keep it and frame it or put it on a key chain or something. Ideas anyone? It's nice the sutures are out because I had to cover it with Saran Wrap during showers. Now I can just shower and not worry about that. It's tucked neatly inside the skin now.
Next came the noon "dry run" on my radiation. That was interesting. Starting on Monday, I get to be the first person of the day. My appointments for the next 6 weeks (weekdays) are at 7:30 am. The process will only take about 15 minutes so off to work by 8:00 am afterwards. The radiations will shoot beams into me in 10 different spots in the groin/pelvic area that basically circle my body and destroy the bad cells by burning the living heck out of them. Yay! I can't wait to get started...... ask me how I feel in a couple weeks though.
The final appointment of the day was a mammogram at 3:00 pm. I skipped last year so decided that I needed to get all my annual exams caught up before the treatment started. I had the PAP last week as I missed that one last year too. The results of that test came in last night too and they are fine. I feel that the colonoscopy taught me that early detection is good. I'm going to pay a lot more attention to my medical things from now on. So far, I've been able to pretty much ignore them because I've always been so darn healthy. I still am healthy, so I want to keep it that way.
I topped off Friday night by working until 7:35 pm and drove home to a yummy dinner that Willie cooked. He's so wonderful and not a bad cook. Of course, he's had a lot of practice in 31 years of marriage because dinners are a 50/50 split between him and I. Or, maybe he cooks 60% and I do 40% but who's counting. I'm glad to be caught up at work for now until the next wave hits next week.
Monday is the big day. I'll go in at 7:30 am for the radiation treatment. We'll probably go get some breakfast at the nearby Marie Calendar's after the radiaion but before my first chemo-therapy session at 9:00 - 11:00. Willie, Amber & Adam, will go with me to keep me company Monday. Only one at a time can go in the room with me. It's sort of a group setting with 10 - 15 chairs and not enough room for more than one at a time. The mitomycin goes in for about an hour. Then I get the pack to take with me for 96 hours of 5FU (I love that). I will head back on Friday for that to be removed and slide into the weekend.
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