Non-literary, purely informative

Good morning!  I slept like a rock last night without any medication!


To simplify things, here is more information about this week's lineup:

Monday July 23rd
9am: Lymphoscintigraphy at UCSF China Basin.  More radioactive stuff to localize my sentinel lymph nodes.  This will help Dr. Ewing, my breast cancer surgeon, take out the correct lymph nodes during the surgery using a Geiger counter type device.  Amazing.
2pm:  Mastectomy (just the right breast with cancer) at 2pm at UCSF Mt. Zion.  The surgery is 3-4 hours.  The waiting room is A325. Then I go to the PACU (recovery area). When I am awake enough I will go to the surgical floor of Mt. Zion hospital (4 East).

Tuesday July 24th
I will likely go home Tuesday afternoon.  It is not mastectomy-related problems that would keep me another night but rather full recovery from all the medications used in anesthesia. I will come home with one to two drains.  I refused to get post-mastectomy garments from the medical supply store.  Instead Ellen and I went to TJMaxx and blew $100 bucks on four hip outfits that have holes in the right places for the drains and either pockets or a good match for a hipster fanny pack accessory to hold the drain bulbs. 

Onward
I will be doing my successful healing at my parents' house
413 Benton Street
Santa Rosa, CA 95401

Visitors
You are welcome to visit at my parents house anytime.  If I am asleep, I will stay asleep. Then you can hang out with my parents, David, Luna and Olive who would also benefit from your visit.  As for the hospital, I think visitors bring great energy and I welcome them, however I don't know the UCSF rules. 

Surgery Update
David or Betty will hijack my blog and post an update on how my surgery went.  It will have gone wonderfully (whoa, that was a complicated verb tense), but check back here for confirmation of this.

Help
My parents, David and I will need help with things but we don't know what those things are just yet. My parents, David or Kamin will contact you directly for help with things if needed.  Also, David and I will be moving into Christoph and Brooke's place at some point later this week or next.  We will need lots of help with that since I won't be able to use my right arm for awhile. 

Mariah, thanks for setting up the meal train. The first meal delivery last week from Margo and Jerry was SO WONDERFUL.

Gratitude
Thank you for your love, concern and well wishes.  I feel it and it feels good.  Keep the goodness coming.