How I came to this blog

For as long as I can remember I had been so excited about my 30th birthday. It was going to be a big year for me, I could feel it. I had no idea a breast cancer diagnosis would turn out to be the reason. I was actually told I had "early breast cancer" at 29, about three weeks before my 30th birthday. What I had is called Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS), which is also considered "stage 0 breast cancer." While it was caught at the earliest possible stage, and my life was never in immediate danger, I still had to undergo mastectomy, including lymph node removal, and reconstruction. My birthday came and went a couple weeks before my mastectomy. More than once I looked down at the "F 30" on my hospital bracelet and wondered, "where did my 30th birthday go?" This will definitely be an interesting year.















Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Notes to My Family: January 4, 2011

Hi Family,
I will try to keep this latest one short.
A couple things:
This past Thursday (the day before New Year's Eve), D, mom & I went for my third & final fill. It went fine as usual.
While we were there we determined that my next surgery will be February 18th. Everything is fine. This has been planned all along. It is the second part of the reconstruction process. The date is locked in but we have no time or even hospital confirmed yet. This is because the surgery may take place at Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Institute, which is a part of Lenox Hill. The surgery is day surgery/outpatient & Manhattan EET provides ambulatory surgery facilities. This surgery is much less intense recovery-wise. I'm out the same day & I only need to take one week off of work to just rest. The following week I still need to take it easy & maybe not workout and stuff but I can go back to work. There should be less pain & fewer drugs and no drains!
Yesterday was my first day back at work. I was not thrilled about it but it ended up being a pretty good day. I went out to lunch with my girlfriends at work and while we were there, Kelly Choi of NY1 came in with her camera people. I'm assuming it was for one of her NY1 food shows but I don't even know if she is still filming those since becoming host of Top Chef Masters.
This week and next we have appointments with medical oncologists. We'll see how those go. Hopefully good. I don't want to have to meet 20 people before finding an oncologist I like and while I don't really want to start the Tamoxifen, I also don't want to put it off forever.
I have started putting together the blog. Right now it is really just a place for me to collect my notes to you, some great resources that might come in handy for someone else and just little anecdotes I want to share along the way. I don't know what kind of access or restrictions I'm putting on it so let me know if you have trouble getting in.
Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Love, Diane :)
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