I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!

Ok, so I've been home for 2 days but unfortunately the gas pain and the catheter came home with me  :(  I've been feeling pretty crappy so I've been laying really low. 

I never did end up eating in the hospital.  My orders didn't get updated so they never upgraded my diet.  Plus this stay was a crazy one!  Perhaps it was a full moon while I was in?  I had an unpleasant roomate that made life very challenging for about 24 hours but thankfully they moved me to a saner room.  However the person they switched me with was having a rough time with confusion and had yanked her IV out.  There was also a man who would just yell and scream pretty much non-stop until about noon each day...  I tell ya, the hospital is no place to rest.

So I'm home dealing with this unrelenting gas pain and having my catherer, or Mr. Foley as I call it, follow me everywhere I go...  good times, not!  I'm slowly beginning to eat again which is nice  :)  Tomorrow I will go into Dr. Duggan's office to have my staples removed and to see if I can have Mr. Foley detached.  Cross your fingers for me!  As cool as it is to be able to pee standing up, I'm looking forward to feeling normal again.

It's hard to believe my first surgery was only 2 months ago today...  4 hospital stays, which included chemo, nuetropenic fever and another surgery, and I'm still kicking!  Jay thinks I may have a little shell shock from so much in so little time and he's probably right ;)  When I start feeling down I try to focus on how far I've come and the fact that I winning!!! 

Which, by the way, I meant to mention, all the cancer is out of my body with the exception of microscopic cells which my future chemo will take care of!  The pathology came back noting that all biopsies came back "no evidence of tumor".  Yahoooooooooooooooooooo!  Oh, and as far as me being a Zebra... well no longer!  I finally have an official diagnosis...  Grade 2 endometrial endometrioid carcinoma.  However, Dr. Duggan said because it traveled to my colon (the original surgery) she classified it as a Stage 4.

I feel fortunate to have such a clean pathology and I am thrilled I will have many more years added to this life of mine thanks to getting in there and getting things done.  Yeah it's been a lot but I'm alive!  I will be forever thankful to my doctors, my family, my friends and all the other cancer patients and people in general in this world that give me hope, love, support and motivation.

While my fight isn't over just yet, I do feel as though I've reached the summit.  May God continue to grant me the strength to see this thing through.

With love, Reba