never miss a thing: August 2008

Sunday, August 31, 2008

Storm chasers...

nothing says adrenalin like storm chasing!
tomorrow morning we find ourselves escaping a hurricane - which i have to say is my first in all my life (global warming, what?)

I went in the ocean without permission and have taken a couple of steps back in the healing progress. oops! but the ocean was so inviting!!!

training going well and have raised $375 already!! Thanks!!!! I'm up to 4 miles and starting the long hauls this weekend... 54 days and counting.

Fingers crossed for a normal flight out tomorrow - heading back north to brace another hurricane (seriously, nobody else sees anything wrong with this?!?!)

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Where did the summer go.

I ask this as a rhetorical question. I am taking one last hoorah out of the city before thesis gets under way... going to Destin to battle a hurricane (not really - I am fully convinced it is going nowhere near us according to weather.com)

I also told sondra I would post a picture -- my hair is getting long and mostly thick! I can't believe it!!

I started training this week for the 3day walk in october. got a pedometer and everything (serious business) am riding and walking 3-5 a day. (except for today - i took tonight off to go see federer play in the us open - yay!)

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

60 miles or bust!

Susan Komen 3-day walk in Atlanta- sign me up! I am officially walking for the cure, people. Training starts today. (well technically it started 3 weeks ago for the 5K - but the surgery put a damper on thing)
The company that I work for is sponsoring a group of employees to go- so yours truly will be lacing up and headin' down south to walk for the tatas.
Here is the link to the site for donations and other guilt-inducing pandering...
http://www.the3day.org/site/TR/Walk/AtlantaEvent?px=2554694&pg=personal&fr_id=1181

don't think you will get off easy - I will be sending an email out shortly to tug at your heartstrings in hopes of donations. Pass on the link, in today's world you have no idea who has been touched by this and the numbers grow every day!

Saturday, August 9, 2008

Boobs

knockers, tatas, fun-bags... whatever you call them - i gottem'. Yup, as of aug.6th at 12 noon I got 2 new boobs, well 1 new boob and one much improved boob. I am one nipple shy of a complete set but that comes with a little bit more healing.
I had a follow up appt. yesterday and got rid of the drain - that fast, you say? I know, i thought the same thing. but apparently it's cool, I'm good and it was time to take the drain out. No more port(s), no more drain - only wearing the uber-tight ultra sports bra 24/7 for the next week. Still tired and sore oh so sore - but am rockin the pain meds and wandering somewhere between consciousness and cabin fever. One day at a time - mom's been here to be the nurse, chef and general home organizer.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

surgery successful

YAY!
totally sore and really tired. i will write more when i am not as drugged out...
thanks for your thoughts/prayers!!

Buy Me!

YES! It's here! If you want to buy a shirt to help me out with the medical bills as they are starting to pile up, I would greatly appreciate it. If you would rather not, please pass it on to your nosy neighbor to see if they will instead.
There are two styles: "circles" or "tank"(see feb.18th post for a picture of each) If you would like tank, please specify in the "Is there any else you want to tell me" field. If you don't specify, I am just going to assume circles. And I am also going to assume that you have nothing else to say.
Thanks so much for helping out! And pass it on to other generous people. (not selfish people, they are no fun.) -nicole

If you feel funny about sending money over the "interweb", email me at n2creative@gmail.com and we'll work something out.

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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