Finally! A GOLD STAR!!

Well, give a control freak a situation that they have very little control over something that she might have a little bit of control over in the siutation (like stretching and working a post-operative chest/arm while sitting at home for a week) and what do you get?! A girl with a post-operative chest and arm that is back to (just about) full range of motion with no pain meds needed and a very shocked and pleased surgeon. haha. Dr. Markus was over the moon when he asked me to try and lift my arm so he could show me some stretches to work on at home and I actually could lift my arm all the way up and out and around like it ain't no thing. Wound healing wise, I'm right on track. Got my drains removed. And activity wise, I'm about where I should be in 4-6 weeks post-op after just 1 short week. haha. I'm feeling great. Was expecting to be working toward getting back to normal this week, but I am almost there already! Yay!! Again, contributing a lot of this quick healing and restoration to healthy eating and lifestyle choices...lots of healthy real whole foods and been trying my very very best to be as active as I can with yoga and walking these past 5 months (which includes lots of practice isolating and stretching parts of your body). Yessss...finally....Righty got a good report card from a doc in something!! haha.

I also have a little bit of info updated from Dr. Jim, my oncologist...
Still waiting on a few results from pathology reports on my tumors (I think I forgot to mention before that there was a very small second lesion found-3 mm- near the 3.1 cm mass). He is referring me to a breast cancer center out of town for a board of experts to review my case and make sure that we have exhausted our options as far as systemic treatment goes and get the best treatment plan together for us to jump into in a month. I will be heading out of town to meet some new specialists in the near future. Because my case is so unique, we want to get as many eyes and opinions on me as possible. We are off the course on the map here as far as triple negative breast cancer treatment goes. There is no standard of care from here on out for me. Of course, it's not awesome to be a case that needs a board of experts to consult with (p.s. I was also the case study today presented for a big presentation at the hospital by Dr. Jim and Dr. Markus), but it's pretty awesome to have an oncologist who takes care of gathering all of the opinions he can and to have so many options and resources available to us. Again, we are heading into this next phase of treatment in a great position with good reason to have very high hopes that any further treatment will be beneficial, but no reason to believe that I have residual disease or matastatic lesions in my body right now. WIN.

I will keep you posted with some of the trouble we get ourselves into while on 'vacay' this month :)

WIN the day
Love
Jenn