ok....Surgery is on Tuesday. No more drinking for me. It will be a while until I feel like having a party. I had a good time last night!!!! Live it up while you can, cause ya just never know!
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ok....Surgery is on Tuesday. No more drinking for me. It will be a while until I feel like having a party. I had a good time last night!!!! Live it up while you can, cause ya just never know!
Pokerkitty, I was just thinking about you and your surgery on Tuesday a little while ago. Talked to my husband about it. This is all going to be over before you know it. It will take some time to recover as with any surgery and maybe some time to get used to. You will prob go through a few different emotions about it before it's finished, but nothing out of the ordinary for what you are going through. And I know you are going through it. Just don't forget it will be finished. Chin up, positive attitude, some rest, lots of NDN, maybe even get babied a bit. ;) I am with ya, my prayers are with ya and you know where to find me. Every one here is with ya obviously. So hang in there baby..... and as soon as you feel up to it, get back here. Thank God for all things especially lap tops! :smile:
Lots of Love,
Lori
Thank you soooo much Lori and yes thank God for laptops!!!! I'm ready to get it done and over with!
Well people, this time tomorrow I will be coming out of surgery. The general surgeon will be working on me for two hours and the plastic surgeon will working on me for 3 hours. It's going to be hell. I will wake up with two little bumps where two big mounds used to be. It's going to be strange. I will have to wear two drains, under my boobs that look like grenades. Once they stop draining then I go in and have them removed. Some women it takes one week, some women it takes over a month. I hope I'm one of the lucky ones. Lymth nodes (spelled wrong I'm sure) will be removed from the right side only, not the left. For the rest of my life I have to have all blood work and blood pressure taken from my left arm because if they do it on the right my arm will swell up too much. For the rest of my life when I fly, I have to use air compression sleeves to keep my arms from swelling up. Sound like a ton of fun. My surgery is at 1:30 tomorrow. I have been having terrible allergies all day today. My nose feels like its going to fall off. I hope that doesn't hurt anything for tomorrow. I'm looking forward to getting it done and over with. My last day of work was Thursday and my co-workers and members threw me a party. Everyone wore pink. One of the men showed up entirely in pink, even his shoe laces. They had beautiful pink cakes and strawberry cakes. The lemonade was pink. Pink flowers all over the courtyard. They gave me a breast cancer awareness cap and everyone had already signed it. There must have been at least 60 people there. They gave me six weeks off work and I may have more if needed. Candler Hill Golf Club in Ocala, FL is full of great communities who take care of their own. They took me under their wing. Awesome people!!! By New Years Eve, I should be put back together...I should be skinnier, have new hair and big new boobs. Can't wait for 2010 and I can't wait to kiss 2008 and 2009 out of my life. I've had two rough years and very much looking forward to the future. I do have a myspace page and a facebook page for anyone who is interested. My name as you know is Pokerkitty6 and my email is Pokerkitty6@cox.net. For myspace you have to use my old email poswell@tampabay.rr.com. I should be online alot in the next six weeks. Take care and I'll talk to ya'll soon. Don't forget to say a prayer for me tonight.
well good luck to you. u will be in all of our thoughts. hear kitty roar. keeps us updated. man i really like what your peeps did for u. getting lymph nodes removed is no fun as my mother in law had that done. lots of swelling but u will be alright. good luck. we will miss ya.
I love you Pokerkitty, and you'll be in my prayers all day tomorrow and beyond! You'll make it through I know, you have an amazing support system! I went through an 11 hour surgery when I was four years old so I know long surgeries can be scary and daunting. Just pray and trust in the Lord. I'll add you to my Facebook right now, you should get a request soon. Much love to you!
I love you tooo Tay!!! You too Glo...all of you. My Dad says, "He died for you, now you have to live for Him" I thought that was pretty cool. I'm new on facebook so bear with me. If I knew how to put a picture of myself on NDN I would have already. I'll have lots of time to learn this within the next six weeks.
Wow Pokerkitty now that is what I call a job. A party like that, how touching and what a great group of people to work with. They must love you like us here at NDN. :) And your husband and your friends.... This just goes to show you what kind of person that you are as you are surrounded by lots of love and good people. My prayers have been said and I will say some more. Just get back here already, will ya. Deep breath and big smile... every thing is gonna be OKay. :)
Well that explains the meds we were discussing.Sweetheart I am so sorry, and my prayers will be with you.I sure hope that all is well and you get to feeling better soon.You will be in my thoughts and I hope to get to play with you at the tables soon.Oops that sounded bad, oh well it will just have to.KITTY we all love you here and hope you get rid of that cancer and become fully well again.I want to say MEOOW alot in the future so get better soon! MEOOWWWWWW
B & Lil thank u so much!!! I going in at 10 so I will be logging off soon. You can still say MEOWWW everynow and then if you get a kick *** hand. I love you guys and I'll talk to as soon as my fingers start working again. I will be slow to start out and a little wacked in the head. Have fun at the tables and I hope you win alot.
PokerKitty Pokerkitty
Hip Hip Hooray
Hip Hip Hooray
Hip Hip Hooray
Time to grab life by the balls and show em what you are really made of. True Grit
good luck and god bless you pokerkitty my thoughts and prayers are with you today
I hope things went smoothly yesterday Pokerkitty and I hope you are getting some rest!
Get well soon!!!
I am bumping this thread as I am waiting patiently for you pokerkitty. I am sure everything went well just hoping the recovery process will be quick. I have been praying for you as many others have as well. We can't wait to hear from you!
Hi all!!! I'm home now. I only had to stay overnight. If you can imagine what it woud feel like having your tits cut off...thats exactly what it feels like. I have never experienced so much pain in all my life. This was worst than my hystorectomy. The drains are driving me crazy! Maybe another week of dealing with them. The Lortab painkillers completely knock me out. I ended up having stage 2, grade 3 cancer. They removed 11 lymph nodes-all negative. To top it all off, a cap on one of my teeth feel off and I ended up at the dentist at 8am this morning. I meet with my oncologist on Sunday at 6:45am to see if my cancer has spread and to learn the plan of attack. I've never heard of a Dr. working on Sun. much less at 6:45am. I'm looking forward to this visit. I need to know. My beautiful breasts are gone, but the new set seems to be forming nicely. I'll stay in touch. Thank you all for your support, prayers, and humor along the way. It means the world to me. I'll see you at the game tonight.
Welcome Home
PokerKitty
ok i don't know how i missed this thread ..ive been lax on posting and maybe that is it.... not sure .... but girl ..... gg on handling this as you have .....this is probably the worst part of it that u are going through ...hope some of the pain is clearing for you by now... keep hanging in there... you have shown such strength dealing with this ...i hope my absence in posting has not caused you to think i don't care ... i so do ..... so many years ago I helped my mother in law through hers ... having another with you at doctor appointments is so crutial ... it allows you to just feel and deal with it without also having to deal with remembering all the instructions and details too.
I liked your positive attitrude with going for the extra size ...pump it up baby ..always good ..why settle when its there for the asking ...
i dont know how long it took me to read this whole thread . stoppping to reread to laugh and to cry.. hugs and kissess
i too want to say kudos to Tony .. not sure if i played against him at all? for I hadnt heard of this till now and always just assumed it was you no worse for wear sitting across from me on the table ..hope i never said anything to make you feel uncared for during these past weeks
as for family drawing near ..don't be too hard on them ...loooking back I'm sure you too can recall indifference dealing with their lives too...we are all so busy and life seems to take its toll on our free time... Reading of your families visits warmed my heart as it also painfully brought up my estrangement to my father.... the rallying of your employers and coworkers was a great story also ..... please let others help when they ask ...it really does help them as much as it will help you.
well ok I guess that is it...I look forward to hearing about your recovery.. I too send best wishes for a safe, continued successfull, painlessening path to your complete recovery.
again except my apologies for missing this
well glad to see u made it out of surgery. hey the pain will subside the cap will be replaced and the boobs will be bigger and better. but your healthy again and thats all that counts. im happy for u and your family kitty. here kitty roar.
glad to see you made it home. keep being as strong as you have been. fake
boobs are so much better anyways. just think when you 70 they wont sag
like everyone else at that age. keep up the fight
Pokerkitty I am so glad to hear from you. Take it easy! My prayers are still lifted. Thank God for painkillers, that's for sure. Your post is a very good sign of recovery, YaY!
Thanks again everybody. Please be assured if Tony ever does play in my place he will let you know straight up. Besides, what man would like to be called Pokerkitty6? I'm sure he will sit in for me one day, but he will let you know for sure. Thanks again all and good nite.
welcome back kitty
lets play poker:):)
It's so good to hear from you! I've been praying for you and thinking of you all week. Hang in there sis, and continue to keep us updated on your progress! Much love.
Welcome "home" Pokerkitty!
Eejit101 said you guys had a blast in the game yesterday and I was bummed I missed it.
Please let us know if there is anything we can do for you!
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We did have a blast.
We all were as dopey as Pokerkitty must have been on her medications.
There were moments of hysteria.:D
im sorry to hear about the cancer. i wish you the best!
My arms and my chest hurt like really crazy!!! I'll just have to keep taking my meds and playing poker to keep my mind off things! Ya'll have been great. Thanks again everybody!
ok...so I'm a little confused, I wonder why...my oncologist appt.is next Sunday, not this Sunday. I got up at 5:30am for nothing. Well a least I got the paper work out of the way. I'm anxious to have a pet scan. I'm not real good on waiting for answers. I just need to know if the cancer has spread. Well, next appt. is Tue. with the plastic doctor. He can't start "pumping" me up for at lease another week. I'm too sore and tender. I have too many dr's and too many appointments right now. Can't wait for all of this to be over with. C-ya at the tables soon.
Get some rest and NEVER wake up at 5:30 on a Sunday!
When you're in the golf business, you're at work before the sun comes up. It's really beautiful to watch the sunrise on a golf course, especially if you're the first one to tee off. Went to the dr. today and one of my drains came out today. Yey!!! Maybe I can actually sleep on left side tonight. I saw my surgeon yesterday and asked him for some more pain pills, he only gave me 15 a week ago today. He said no, they make you constapated. i asked him for some sleeping pills because I'm not a back sleeper, he said no they are too addicting. I said my god, you cut my boobs completely off I'm gonna need something. He told me to take tylenol and tylenol pm. I said ok, but at home I told my husband the man is crazy, I'm going to be in pain. So, today I see the plastic surgeon and asked him for some pain pills so I can sleep and not be in pain. He said, thats the least we could do, after all we cut your breasts off and you're going to need more when we start "enhancing" you. I dealing with three different drs right now, kinda hard to keep them all straight. I'm also using NDN as my blog on my breast cancer so I can keep my friends updated. I've told a few people to log on here so they can keep up with my status. Hope you all don't mind this and if you don't want to read, then skip it, but 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime, so actually this can be used as a learning tool for alot of people. Men and women alike. This is brand new to me and my husband, but we have come a long way in one month. It still feels like a bad dream. Thank you all for letting me ramble on about this, it really helps me.
Yesterday was a blah day. I looked at boobs and actually started crying. Trust me, I'm a very strong person, not a crybaby, so it shocked me. I know this is temporary, but it hurts to look. There is no way I'm letting my husband see this image. I want him to remember my sexy boobs and hopefully the new ones will turn him on even more. Today I feel a little more upbeat. My hubby said he would take me to the track today to cheer me up, but I can't because I have to stay away from germs for a while. Maybe I'll send him over to place some bets for me. Sometimes I get lucky when I do that. I know today will be a better day, its my brother's birthday, his name is Nick. I will always call him Nicky and he is 31. Have a great day and I'll c-ya at the tables.
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Kitty, it's called post traumatic stress syndrome.
You have to expect that for a while.
Crying is very important to your overall emotional balance.
Just don't let depression take over.
That's what we are here for, to help make sure that doesn't happen.
Allow us to cheer you up when ever you need it.
We love you.
NO FEAR
Thanks for the update, Pokerkitty. I'm so sorry this is so hard on you, but I am sure you are not the only one who has felt this way. Stay strong, and remember that it's more than okay to cry if you need to. Any of us here will be more than happy to be a shoulder to cry on for you whenever you need it. I am sending you my love and prayers every day!
Pokerkitty I know this have been incredibly rough on you and my heart feels it for you. I don't care how strong or how tough we are the fact remains and is sometimes unfortunate that we are still human. This all happened so fast and we are never prepared for it. It's ok to cry and be afraid it really is God know I cry well God and everybody know that I cry so if you chose not to I will cry for you. And if you decide that it's ok I will cry with you. I so admire your strength. It is refreshing! I hope today was better than yesterday and I hope tomorrow will be better than today. Hang in there baby! You got her whoped. Thoughts and prayers are with you. Can you feel it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pokerkitty6
With Love
Lori
Give me a shout if you need anything Pokerkitty!
I couldn't imagine how difficult things can be, but stay strong and get through this!
We are all fortunate that we're getting to spend some extra time with you here on NDN and that you're opening up and coming out of that shell!
Yeah, I see why u r stressed out. Just play more poker and maybe that will keep your mind elsewhere.
Yeah, I'm with hubby, 36D sounds nic to me also :cool:
I was in sooo much pain last night, more than any night so far. I don't know if it is the swelling going down or if I just did too much. I loaded the dishwasher and did laundry and now I hurt like hell. My pain pills are helping a little bit. I wanted to take another one, but I didn't cause it says every 6 hours. My doctor told me not to do any house work. Well, I figured that was over a week ago, it would be ok now. NOT!! Today, I just feel really tender. I'll get an update soon. I see three different doctors, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, I'm way too young to be seeing this many doctors. Enough about breast cancer for now. c-ya at the tables.
awww girl ..im so sad you are having such a hard time of this...hope things lighten up soon ....hey that is exactly what you did... dont do anything...i dont care how messy things get ....someone will get to them when they can and if not so be it...... please take it easy ...the trauma is enuf dont add to the pain by doing too much..... painless days are coming ..hang in there
Pokerkitty if the doctor say's not to do any house work, why are you doing housework? Why not take it easy so the healing process can take place? Now you need to just take it easy no matter how much you don't want to. You better be glad I am not there. I am the kind of nurse that makes you do what your supposed to. But I am not mean. However you need to listen because the doctor it telling you what is best. And we want the best. Okee Dokee!
I'm so sorry for the pain! That sucks! I have said a special prayer for the pain now.
I've been through many surgeries where I feel pretty good for a few days afterward, and then all of a sudden I feel much worse one day. It definitely does happen, but I am still very sorry. Do listen to your doctor for sure, I know you really want to be as independent as you were before and keep your life as normal as possible, but you'll thank yourself for rest later. Just keep taking your pain pills and take it easy! You'll want your energy for after you get your new tits and they're all ready to be enjoyed!