Drains out! Bring on the celebrating!
Hello, all -- Traci here!
I'm thrilled to share that I had my first followup with my surgeon today, and he removed the drains! Hallelujah!
I'm still in a good bit of pain, but at least don't feel like I'm carrying around 2 alien parasites everywhere I go, and have a better chance of finding a comfortable position to sleep.
I know how truly lucky I am to have the drains removed only 6 days after surgery -- I know many of you had them in for 2 weeks or even longer. Because my bilateral was prophylactic, the lymph nodes weren't involved at all, so that's a big part of why I was able to get them out so soon.
So, for now, I'm forcing myself to take a walk every day, sleeping a lot, taking my pain meds, and starting my arm exercises. And Trace is on her way home now with a celebratory froufrou iced coffee drink the size of my head!
Thank you all for all the support you've given to Trace and me this past week -- it's meant so much to both of us.
Traci
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I am so jealous.
My first drain came out at 3 weeks. My second didn't come out for 7 long weeks. I thought I was going to have it for life. The day the last one came out I called my friend and told her I was now cordless. What a sense of freedom.
Congrats. Enjoy that wonderful feeling.
Sandy
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awesome Traci glad everythingVickiSam said:Is Trace driving her new Harley???
Good news about your drains -- alien parasites or as I like to think of them as 2 kittens holding on for dear life - claws digging into my new incisions -
continued good health, strength I ippe and pray for you..
Vicki Sam
awesome Traci glad everything went well
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may the rest of your recoverylintx said:Congrats on drains
Glad to hear you are up and about! Trace is an excellent reporter, by the way! Very glad you have her by your side. Go drink your coffee! Linda
may the rest of your recovery go as smoothly as this. Enjoy the frou frou.
Stef
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Congratulations! ! And I am
Congratulations! ! And I am so jealous. Tomorrow will be three weeks since my double mastectomy. Left side was stage 3c, and 3 nodes were removed. Only one was positive. Other side was non invasive. Two nodes were taken and they were both negative. I had 4 biweekly dd A/C treatments followed by 12 weekly Taxol treatments. On day of surgery, tumor was 4.2 cm, and he got clear margins. Yesterday I went to have my drains and staples removed. Staples came out but he wants drains lert in for another week. Next comes 28 radiation treatments.Traci, I am still having pain and still taking hydrocodone. I'm looking forward to getting my life back to normal, or at least whatever the new normal will be.
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congrats
Congrats! You're making excellent progress.
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YAY!!!! for you!Puffin2014 said:congrats
Congrats! You're making excellent progress.
So glad to hear you are doing so well!
Keep resting and walking and taking good care!
-Jenny
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You are so lucky!jennytwist said:YAY!!!! for you!
So glad to hear you are doing so well!
Keep resting and walking and taking good care!
-Jenny
I had mine in for a total of 4 weeks. I had to have a second surgery two weeks after the bilateral due to the right side opened up. Those things are the most god awful looking things and sting like a buggers butt coming out. You hit the lottery only having to deal with them for only a week. Get some rest.. love life and you'll be back to feeling really good soon.
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Hurrah!
Glad to hear that you are progressing so well, Traci! We were all pulling for you and continue to do so. Now, another frou frou coffee sounds pretty good right around now...
Clem
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Good newsJosie21 said:Great news!
So happy you are doing so well! Once the drains came out I know how much better I felt. Now do those exercises and continue healing.
Hugs,
Ginny
I am glad that everything is going well.
Sendong positive thoughts for your full recovery and healing
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Wow!
I'm impressed! Hope everything else to follow goes as splendidly for you. :-)
Kind regards, Susan
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