Tired Girl

Hey everyone....

It's been two days since my final surgery and I am alive! LOL... It went really smoothly actually...got there about 55 minutes before I was to be wheeled into the operating room...(don't think they liked that) but hey...I made it..and had the family there..and Lori and Fran. Went into the back scooted my bootie on the gurney, got the IV and went into the surgery room...that is where the fun began.

I was given a little cocktail of some sort of drugs, and whoa I was wasted in like a second, and I told the Doc that I was a way "cheap date" so slow up on the drugs..then I started to laugh..and that was it..both doctors and the nurse in the operating room were cracking up, and my plastic surgeon actually had to leave because he was laughing so hard.

I scooted onto the operating table still cracking up and making all kinds of jokes, because I was so funny and wasted...and then came the mask over my face..and my Doc just held my hand and I looked at him until I saw 4 of him and that was it...slow deep breaths...GONE...

Woke up and I remember asking if I had "Boobies" and doc laughed and said yes..and I asked how big and he said 960ml... "Whoo...Big Boobies" I said.. and then I don't remember much more but thanking everyone and laughing again..and I wasn't even that sore..

So I went home in about 1 and a half hours after that..and I really don't remember that much..

Got to bed, and relaxed and don't remember much of the night really.

Got up in the middle of the night about 3 times to walk around..so I make sure that I get the blood flowing ya know...

I don't feel very badly...actually on a scale of 1-10 its about a 2...the other one was a 20 on the scale of 1-10. So actually pretty good...

I went to the doctor today, Lori took me still can't drive, not for a week or so...

We laughed so hard in the room waiting for the doctor to come in when he did, he is always so happy to see Lori and I because we are always laughin'.

Had another person in the room with us and again I had to ask..."You want to see my boobies"...doc just rolls his eyes...and yes the intern has to see the work...well I am used to this actually. More people have seen my boobies in this office than in the last 20 years in my life! That is the truth!

Well anyway..I am good..and I feel good and I am so happy!

Love you all...

Stacy

Hi….well I’m sitting in the front seat of a red mustang flying down the highway to our final destination which is Vegas, and of course I’m just thinking at this point my brother Sean, (bless his heart) drives like not too well…which means I’m basically white knuckled as I type…seriously he is driving talking to Ray in the back seat and eating a chicken soft taco from Del Taco, and we are doing anything but staying within the lines….I might actually vomit…but hey…life is an experience right!


We are listening to Kelly Clarkson, breakaway…..take a risk, take a chance, and breakaway…..

Had the most amazing day yesterday..got up went to Laguna main beach and walked around a bit and had lunch at this little French restaurant called C’est La Vie, had a Greek salad..Ray ordered Chicken Picata..she loves mushrooms and capers..and we just felt the ocean breeze..we were seated outside and the water line was about 100 yards from us….so beautiful.

After lunch (and Crème Brule’) we walked along the shore line…and let the water just touch our feet…it was so amazing just being….not doing anything just holding hands and laughing and watching the all different people…saw a mermaid, at least one with feet..and I asked to take a picture of her…(she was happy to pose) she had the long hair past her behind and all soft and reddish brown and just reminded me of a mermaid…she was 17 and so pretty….of course Ray, was again mortified…because you see I talk to everyone….the world is my friend!

We went to the north end of the beach and were lucky enough to find the tide was low so I wanted to show Ray where I would go all the time when I was a kid, the same beach, the same tide pools…. She hasn’t been to a tide pool not because she hasn’t been to a beach, she has been to many beaches on other continents even, but never to a tide pool, probably because always a strict schedule to follow…or someone would not want to do something, but when it is just the two of us…we can do what ever we want!

So I wanted to show her how I used to climb the rocks and search within the many tide pools for sea life and envision basically the small eco-systems. These are the same rocks and tide pools I searched as a child. I thought ok…she might get bored but I wanted to share this experience with her.

I was amazed of her curiosity! She was saying to me…”Oh Mom I love this so much”, this is so amazing to me and I could see her just glowing and so excited and her eyes just danced from tide pool to tide pool looking and so excited. She’s said to me this is what I want to do…she has always loved marine life, and dolphins and has since she was 3 years old wanted to be a veterinarian, but I let her know that there are more than just dog and cat vets…there are marine mammal vets, and she said to me, “That is what I want to do!”

So we literally were at the tide pools for 3 ½ hours, and taking pictures and I was explaining to her what barnacles were ( not the ones on my feet…no no I’m just kidding) and we saw many many sea urchins and they were all covered in shells , and some were blue, others green some white and small, some so large. I told her to touch one very gently, and when you do the close up hoping to gather food…she was so excited, and frightened at the same time, but she wanted to learn and know and feel with all of her senses….

We sat on the rocky landscape and watched the waves come up below us and just sat and listened and felt and breathed the sea air in, and it was so beautiful. She couldn’t get enough. We went around and found a tide pool that was so pretty and there was a rock laying on a sea urchin and we picked up the rock and saved it..because its lower half was a bit damaged…and she was so happy! We’ve saved it’s life she danced and danced! The picture above is Rachele's feet...I love that picture..I love feet...

We sat for a while and then my brother Sean came to join us…we stayed for about another hour..playing in the sand, and waters edge..and then decided to go and get something to eat…

We went to a little Mexican restaurant not far from the beach and sat and talked and laughed and had salsa and chips…water.. We went back to the beach house and then watched Pirates of the Caribbean at World’s Edge, one of Ray’s favorite movies….

Ok we are now pulled over on the side of the road, Ray is sick again, and the sun is beating on her in the back seat and she is about to spontaneously combust, and my mama is on the phone with her and she’s like I can’t talk right now Grama I’m about to throw up and my head is on fire from the sun…..So Sean is (all 6 feet 1 inch) crammed in the back seat, with his bad back trying to arrange the stuff into the back window so she is ok…all the while Semi-trucks are passing us and that’s scary….but I have tears streaming down my face because he’s trying to shove this (wait a min long pause- had to change cd’s) bag which has a small velvet chair and this glass object that my aunt bought me in to the back window…and I can’t even talk because I’m laughing so hard, and I’m trying to tell him as he keeps shoving the bag, and saying “what the hell’s in this bag” uhhhhhh hello it’s glass, and by now it is broken..so he takes the glass object out of the bag..oh easier to shove it in the back window now…nothing is going to stop him now…and semi trucks are still speeding by…(I’m sure were going to die any second) …well Ray is saying that uncle Sean…there is a chair in the bag…he’s like “A CHAIR” what are you talking about? He opens the bag, and indeed a chair is in there…and it won’t no matter how hard he tries. ..fit into the window…so out comes the chair…and the bag is empty…and he fixes it in the window to make sure that Ray is now no longer burning up..hat on her head, door closed....foot on the gas pedal, and we are off again….Whew…another near death experience…

Anyway…great day yesterday, and today?? Well I will let you all know when I arrive….and If you don’t hear from me…well I don’t have to explain that one do I?

Love you all!

Stacy

P.S. Made it home...

Hi....Well guess what I just finished typing this whole page and it disappeared...that makes me a bit pissy..ok so here we go again...

I guess the little blue button on the bottom that says "save now" I should hit periodically..

Ok so Ray and I are in California..we came down for a few days to just hang with the family, and Natasha my cousin is having an engagement party! So tonight we are having the party was supposed to be last night, but family from Canada on the grooms side evidently didn't think that their 6 month old baby needed a passport and they missed the plane...still don't know how that will work out...

Airport Woes! Well after getting dropped off at the airport, I decided to check in for the flight inside because at 8:15am in the morning in Vegas it is already 95 degrees and I am melting!!

So Ray and I go to the US Air ticket counter, and as I approach..I look at both lines...hmmmm..first class line 4 people...regular line 104 people...Yep were checking in at the first class counter..I can because I am a dividend miles silver preferred member...and what does that mean exactly?????? Shorter lines and board first..ok I will take it this time...

So I drag my 57 pound suitcase up to the counter, (which I don't think it is over 50 pounds..because if it is...50 Bucks!) Well I lug the b*tch on the scale and yep..57 pounds....Sh*t! Well she says as she smiles so politely..ok well it is 15$ to check your bag in...HUH? When did that start? That started July 1st. Ok I can handle the 15$ but I'm not happy about it...and no way am I paying 50$ more. So she looks at me sizing me up and down, and says just take out two pair of jeans...OHHHHH...yea two pair of my jeans weigh 7 pounds!! Are you friggin nuts? (apparently she had not had her morning starbucks!) Yea soaking wet jeans not put through the spin cycle, which by the way I didn't have in my suitcase..only dry jeans folded neatly..so I took out two pair of jeans...gave her a look, zipped up the suitcase, stood it up and low and behold..it took off 1 1/2 pounds! Not the 7 pounds that she thought. Yes, Ray is mortified at this point!

So I thought maybe it was the 7 pair of shoes I brought? So I put the suitcase down, opened it up and dug through it..and (while not even being aware of the line behind me) took out 5 pair of shoes! Zipped the suitcase up, stood it up and yea! Only 50.7 pounds...at this point I hoped she would let the .7 pounds slide because at this point I would be taking out a pair of panties...and I told her so! She said she would let the last .7 lbs slide! Whew!

So here we are carrying shoes and two pair of jeans...I had another bag with me that I had my laptop in..so not so bad..but we ran up stairs and bought an I Love Las Vegas bag..for 7.95 and shoved the jeans and shoes in there and went through the security check point....hmmmm...now which line..First Class line 4 people..regular line 104 people!

First Class..Dividend Miles holders as well so I didn't cheat! So through quickly, but what grosses me out is that you have to take your shoes off..and I am forever wearing strappy heels, so no socks...ugh! And I get all grossed out walking on the floor, and I tip toe through the metal detector, basically walking on my first two toes...and holding my breath...Ray has socks on and again is mortified! She is like "Mom not only do you look like a Barbie today, you are walking like one, and you're killin me!"

I don't care..there are thousands of germs on the floor...ugh..Oh then as we are leaving security..I left my mobile phone and my drivers license in the little bucket..and the TSA agent yells my name "STACY" and I jump out of my skin..cause I can't figure out for the life of me what I did, and I turn around and she has my ID and phone, which I would have figured out I didn't have it in like 3 more seconds, I was too busy trying to put on my shoes while balancing on two toes!

So..we run to the restroom because I had to wash my hands and wipe off my feet and then we go and wait to board the plane...

Plane ride was good...we got into California on time, Auntie picked us up...we went back to the manse an had chocolate chip pancakes! She makes the greatest Chocolate Chip pancakes. But so sweet, and I watch my sugar intake! (How boring!) Ray was soooo happy. We then went to the cliff house/beach house in Laguna, and just relaxed untill we went out to dinner at 8:30, and Ray the poor baby was car sick so we had to pull over 2 times to have her walk around before we got there!

But we got there and it was a great Mediterranean place called Open Sesame and had a nice dinner closed the place down... Grama went with us too...and Ray was pushing her all over the house in her wheel chair, and out on the sun decks too...and she wanted to pay her 5$ Rachele wouldn't take it..but then Grama was getting mad..so she took the 5$.

Anyway that was my day yesterday...slept not so good...was in a bit of pain, and Ray was all over the place!

I will write again tomorrow!

Love you all

Hi everyone!

Well just an update on what is going on.....Well I have surgery scheduled again on the 25th...it will be in the afternoon..and I will go home after..so not so crazy as last time. (Oh I thought this picture says it all....how funny is that?)

I spent a good amount of time at the Plastic Surgeons office yesterday deciding on what I want to do...Silacone or Saline...and ugh..we both decided to actually order both and he would decide when we are actually in surgery.

It is amazing how these implants are made...and the diameter and the projection and all of these specifics...I was very intrigued, and me with the thousand questions...I had to understand everything...

So I would rather have silacone which only goes up to 800ml...and saline can go to 950ml...so I am not sure what he will implant..I said again I would rather have the silacone..and now he is going to do some surgery on the other boobie as well..so instead of him leaving it alone...he wants to do something to that one as well...ugh!

Ok..so I trust him and then when I wake up I will be perfect! The surgery was scheduled on that Tuesday of that same week..but then he moved it to Friday, then he realized that he would be out of town right after that...so he moved it to the Monday of the same week...So he can see me the next day...

So important I walk...and I will be getting an injection of Lovenox before and after surgery and two times a day for 10 days after...no blood clots for me...

I let my family know yesterday when the surgery was...and so that would be on a Monday and Saturday Rob and the kids minus Amanda are going to California...she will stay home with me, and hang out..and by then I should be good anyway!

So Sean is in town from Atlanta...and we are going to dinner tonight with Rachele. Amanda will be at the gym training...and Berto..with his Dad...but with Dad and Mom and my cousins in from New Jersey so a mini family reunion! We are going to the Rio Hotel...they have a nice dinner place there so it will be fun!

Going to my oncologist Dr. Manno before that at around 4:30 or so..have to start a new medicine actually for neropathy...side effect of the surgery..it will help with the pain I have been having in my arm. It's because they removed lymphnodes so then I guess that it could cause problems with the nerves...and the lymph system. So I will know later, and he is such a good doctor..he called me during my late lunch with my family and I have an appointment with him on Friday morning, but he wants me to come into his office today end of day so we can talk and he isn't so distracted with other patients. So Rachele and I will go there first then to the dinner!

Well that is all actually, and I want to thank everyone as usual for all of your love and support and being so there for me...you so know how much I appreciate you all!

Ok..enough for now...

Love..

Stacy

Hi everyone!

Well everything is going well...so not much news to report..working on starting a non-profit company for breast cancer..but not talking about it too much, can't give everything away!

The countdown begins again...so just a few more weeks and then I will be complete again! Yea!

Well not in much of a mood to write...workin' so I will touch base soon!

Oh by the way I don't have to take any meds! So no side effects....Yipee!

Love to you all!

Stacy