The last few days

The weekend was nice, and was able to get out a little. We had no luck finding scarves that were sort of pre-cut for tying. I am going to have to go to the Women's Center at Northside Hospital to find what I am looking for and I will do that the next time I am in the office. I was hoping that would be tomorrow but now that I have the wound vac back, it won't been. I don't remember it being this uncomfortable before. Either I was dulled by pain meds (I took more then) or I am just not used to it yet. Nurse Kathy put it back on today. The sponge she used to put inside the wound was no bigger than a quarter. She said in the beginning she could put her whole fist there, so I am healing. Some really good news - she said if it did not drain much by Wednesday she was taking me off the wound vac. So far it does not look like much drainage to me. But you know my luck-----I am guessing I will have it a week or so, but gosh it would be great to be wrong. While I can't say I am in a great deal of pain, I am just not comfortable and it aches. I was able to work today from bed, but it was harder to concentrate on more difficult tasks. I did bump up the pain meds the first part of the day. I am keeping my fingers crossed for Wednesday.

We see Doc O (the surgeon) Wed., Oct 17, and I have the first of my "every three month" scans. I have to admit I am pretty nervous about that. I have a work thing to do that night before that should be fun (if I am wound vac free) so that will help keep my mind off things I hope.

After a fun visit, imo left on Saturday early in the morning on her way to Virginia. She will be back here spending the night Sunday I think. Syd and Zola came on Sat, and we ran a couple of errands and went to lunch. We were out for 2 hours and I crashed for 4 after. I did rally to cook dinner, which I have done the last few nights. Slowly I am trying to take back some of the house responsibilities from Bob. I don't know if I mentioned this, but for my birthday, Bob is rebuilding my pantry so that it is all slide out drawers/shelves instead of just plain ole stationary shelves. I have been wanting this for a while. So while I was out watching my tennis team play Sunday he was emptying out our pantry and cleaning it out. Guess I have not taken back all the house management stuff. I am not real sorry I missed that part. But I will be putting the stuff away.

The general concensus is that we keep blogging for a while -- at least till scans next week. But when all I have to say is "I went to work, came home, cooked dinner" that is probably when it should end. I can't wait to have many, many days like that. Not that I don't like blogging. I just can't wait for normal days!