Updates and more decisions

I've been informed it's been too long since I last posted so I'll try to make sure I include all the updates. :)

Well I got out of the hospital late Thursday night after surgery. (The 8th)
Friday I got the pathology results and posted those.

Last Wednesday I got my drain tubes out... I no longer look like a science experiment and Eric says I'm "wireless" now.

Since then I've been recovering at home, working some starting last week and this week.
Glad to have something to keep my mind busy and very grateful to be able to work from home.

I've had some visitors, thank you, it's been helpful so I don't get so much cabin fever.
Eric, Mom and Laure have helped around the house a bunch.
I can't lift more than 10lbs for about another month or so. That part is hard, 10lbs isn't that much!
My laptop is 5lbs for example.

I'm quickly learning what motions use chest muscles that I didn't realize or didn't think they used that much of the chest muscle.
Turning the wheel in a car stretches most of the muscle quite tight, esp if you go 360º. (Or in my case TRY to do it).

Saw the oncologist yesterday... the negative margin on one of the tumors was only 0.5mm.
(This means that the cancer cells were only 0.5mm away from the edge of what was cut out, the 0.5mm cells were healthy/normal).
She discussed this with the Tumor Board of CO and it's unclear if radiation will be of any benefit.
I will meet with a specialist to talk about pros and cons... I have to decide by October roughly.
There isn't anything suggested at this point and this decision is up to me, I don't know how to decide.
On one hand radiation is SERIOUS STUFF! On the other hand do I ever want something to come back and have to think 'what if I had done radiation?'.

Next week I will have a chemo training class... can't wait!
I will also have a CT scan of my chest to ease my brain about my wheezing. I'm sure it's allergies or stress but will be nice to have a clear brain that it's not cancer.

Chemo starts June 2nd.

Hair will fall out around the second treatment, June 16th.
I bought 2 wigs today.
One has a bit of purple on the bottom, the other is more natural and quite long. So far I love it!

I'll have a full chemo schedule soon, the short of it;
4 treatments in 8 weeks
2 weeks off
12 treatments in 12 weeks
9 months of treatments, every 3rd week.

Second surgery early 2015 likely.
All will be said and done and getting the port out around September 2015.

The above is set until at least November, after that things might change depending on the radiation decision.

Hope everyone enjoyed the rain we just had in CO.
Also hope no one was in the way of the really bad parts.