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Sunday, December 16, 2007

ny snow day

4 days out and i can't believe it is only 9 days til christmas. i hope to be up for travel-- we'll see. i am very sore today but functioning. think i overexerted yesterday so i am resting up and believe me today is the perfect day for it as it looks miserable from the window :-(
the good news is that the david cassidy story is on vh1 so, really why would anyone want to go outside anyway?

5 comments:

Leigh Ann said...: so glad to hear your "voice"- love reading the blogs-sounds like the surgery went well-hang in there-
love ya-LA; December 16, 2007 at 5:41 PM
Sue Isaac said...: Hi, I'm a friend of you Mother, not only through tennis, but a patron of her store as far back as I can remember. I am so happy for you that the surgery was successful and everyone you are working with, including yourself, is very optimistic about your success rate in beating this. I feel you have gone through stage one, the hardest hurdele of all which not only included the surgery, but the shock of hearing the diagnosis and the major decision making proces youhad to go through to decide the best course of action for you. I offer you my prayers daily, and for your Mother, I offer my services to help in any way I can. May God Bless you and keep you in his arms throughout this chapter in your life.-Sue Isaac; December 16, 2007 at 6:08 PM
jamie d said...: Hey Nicole, Just found the link to your blog. Been keeping up with your status through family. We are so happy about the clear lymph nodes. You are in our prayers. Rest as much as you can. Even though I am a disgraced kiddie table patron (there is now no evidence that I ever sat at the adult table!), we will somehow get the kiddie table to you for Christmas. Love you!; December 17, 2007 at 12:24 PM
katrocity said...: Wahooo! Great to hear from you Nic. SO happy to hear everything went well. What a relief! Enjoy the drugs. LOL! Now you can relate to "House" with the Vicodin.

A couple of funny new Seth & Nigel words. Nigel has dubbed John's I-Pod his "Isopod" and insists John plays him this one regae song over and over and over.

Seth has dubbed his PJs with feet on them as having "flippies" and refused to wear any PJs with out "flippies."

Love-

Kate; December 18, 2007 at 5:56 AM
Janie said...: So happy to hear that you are on the mend. I'm sending positive thoughts and prayer your way everyday. Use your mental strength to keep your body moving the right directions.
Are you working on an MBA? I remember the reading assignment for graduate school.....exciting and exhausting at the same time.

Peace,
Janie; December 19, 2007 at 7:54 PM

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the back story:

So, a couple of months ago my mother told me that one of my good friends growing up was diagnosed with breast cancer and was currently going through chemo treatment to shrink the tumor before operating.(side note about friend: we were best friends from age 5 when they moved in behind us in the neighborhood until middle school when we moved away- we spent countless hours together and our mothers are still good friends)
so when i found out about her it got me thinking that i had not done a self exam in ages - so a few days later in the shower i found it. i read some about tumors and felt sure that it was benign but went ahead and made an appointment to get it looked at.
a few weeks later i was in the dr.s office and he shuttled me down to radiology to get it looked at. he was more alarmed at the size of the mass than the odds that it was cancerous - so he felt it was better to be safe than sorry and had me to get a sonogram and mammogram that next week. he as well as the radiologist assured that the odds were good that it was a fibroatanoma (benign fibrous tumor) but again better to play it safe and have it biopsied just to be sure.
i hadn't heard back from the doctor so i assumed no news was good news. but i will never forget him calling me back - i was in the nashville airport coming back from our girls weekend and he asked when i was back because he wanted me to come in to the office. i told him preferred to know what was going on now since obviously it was bad news. he said that normally he would rather speak to a patient about this in person but under the circumstances he understood. he then gave me the diagnoses and some numbers to call the next morning to set up appointments with surgeon and fertility specialist.
whirlwind flight back that was canceled and resulted in me having a breakdown with the gate agent (poor guy) and i was forced to spend the night in DC wondering what in the world was happening.
i have since met up with my friend from childhood and she has been invaluable to me going through all of this and i hope that we can both support each other throughout the next months... it is just too odd that we are both within a week in age, have similar upbringings and have this diagnoses so close together. all we can think of is that we both licked the paint off the barbie dream house at some point (we were both huge barbie fans and that was the majority of our play time) or there was something funky in the creek behind our neighborhood. i do plan on doing more research on this because the similarities are just too much but for now i am blaming it on the barbie dream house

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Sunday, December 16, 2007

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