All I want for Christmas is a pair of Foobs!

Aka fake boobs. And I'm going for it!

At the time of my surgery, bilateral mastectomy, I will be having tissue expanders placed under the muscle where my boobs were. The tissue expanders will be initially filled with a small amount of saline and will start to stretch out my skin. A few weeks after initial placement I will have a larger amount of saline injected. Then again and again over the following 3 months until I am at the size I want to be. Don't ask me what that is just yet;-)

Stay tuned.

My new FREE Hats and Fangs

Another wonderful thing done by a child.

"Heavenly Hats began 7 years ago by Anthony Leanna of Wisconsin. Now 17 years old. He came up with the idea after seeing his Grandma battle breast cancer. During the time he spent in the hospital visiting his Grandma, he saw many cancer patients without hair. He was upset that hospitals did not provide hats for cancer patients and decided that he was going to do something to help them.

Anthony came up with the name and created flyers to affix to collection boxes. He asked his parents to help him distribute these and asked local stores to aid him in the collection of new hats for hospitals and patients. In addition, he emailed hat and embroidery companies from around the world and the response was unbelievable. Anthony has now distributed over 100,000 brand new hats and sends them all over the world. He has appeared on CNN, Good Morning America, CBS Early Show and has received many awards for his dedication to cancer patients. Anthony says that Heavenly Hats is all about brightening the day of the patient and the hope that a new hat will provide them with the confidence and courage to fight another day."

If you would like to contribute to Heavenly Hats , or know of someone who can benefit from one of their Hats Package please call at 920 434-4151 or check out their website Heavenlyhats.com.

I received my Heavenly Hats package today, 5 beautiful warm hats. Here I am with 2 of them, with the addition of my "fangs"... aka fake bangs:-)

I feel O-L-D !!!

November 9, 2008

Well Brian was sick as a dog with the flu, and thankfully... knock on wood... I didn't catch it, cause I am still feeling the effects of #4. Today we wanted to get Isabelle out of the house cause the poor thing was stuck inside all Saturday, except for an hour visit to the grocery store. So we went to our local hiking spot called Sourlands Mountain Preserve. Very pretty and not very demanding hiking. Isabelle had a blast and collected some pretty leaves. But after an hour I was exhausted. I sure hope my energy comes back one of these days. She could have out-walked both of us ! My little nature girl.

Call me the wig lady

#3 wig..... Kinda like shoes... you gotta switch 'em up once in a while or else you get bored.

Getting a break, but not getting a break.

November 7, 2008

Ugg... double ugg. So I great a break this upcoming week from chemofriggntherapy but now we have a virus running in the house. Isabelle broke out with something this week and now Brian is sick. So I'm sure I will get it too, but ... maybe not. Let's not jinx myself. Now with my blood count being the way it is, if I get a fever I have to be hospitalized cause I'll be at high risk of an infection. It just never seems to end, does it?!?!

WHAT? I CAN HAVE ... WINE???

Ok for those who know me... this is a big deal. I haven't had any wine, or beer, or anything of the adult beverage content for quite some time. Well... quite some time to me anyway. Today I saw my wonderful oncologist... aka God Sierocki ...and my hemoglobin level is very low so he told me to ...yes... have some red wine! What's better than that?!?!?!? So this weekend after Isabelle goes to sleep I will indulge in a glass of some fine adult beverage! If I last passed 10pm that is.

Here's an excerpt from an article I just found... just another reason to drink up!

"Wine and Cancer: Numerous studies show that red wine helps fight cancer. Red wine is one of the richest sources for resveratrol, which helps supress cancer. Mice injected with reserveratrol not only experienced slower tumor growth, but also 98% fewer skin tumors."

Watch out for that last step it's a doozey!

November 3, 2008

Well everyone told me the last treatment of AC... my 2 chemofriggintherapy drugs Adriamycin (aka Red Devil) and Cytoxan was going to be the worst. And they were right. Been horizontal since Friday night after trick or treating. My sister-in-law Erin and niece Brianna came up from Maryland Saturady to help us out. And thank God they did. Brian took Brie and Isabelle to Great Adventure for the day, and Erin hung out with me and made a couple of wonderful meals. I didn't even make it into work today ... and I don't feel guilty about it either!

Resting up and needing it.
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