Surgery this morning...

After finding out the day before about the lymphoma, I was scheduled for sugery first thing this morning. I needed to be at the Belleair Outpatient Surgery Center at 930am. I was STARVING! I could not eat after midnight and could not bring myself to eat anything after dinner. I should have ate something right before midnight. I went in and of course they were not able to start an IV, I am a hard stick. They numbed my arms before trying again and it still hurt like heck.

I went in at 1030am and I woke up about 1200pm. I was not in pain at that time.

They took out the largest lymphnode and sent it to the lab at Moffitt for further testing. We were now informed that there is a very slight possibility that it could be non-hodgkin lymphoma

Funny story, The nurse asked me twice what I did for a living when I woke up. The first time I did not answer her and she asked again. I remember thinking what can I tell her that will make her laugh. I told her I was self employed, she asked what kind of work and I told her I was a prostitute. I knew that would make her laugh, since everyone in recovery was over 60 years old. After I was totally awake and Darren came back with me, she told him she was about to double up her gloves and find a bubble suit.

Darren took me back to my mom's house and I was awake for a few hours finally settling into my bed at her house at 2pm. I slept for a few hours while darren went home and took out to dogs and got us more clothes.

Olivia was such a good girl, it was like she knew something was going on.

I woke up and was able to make an appointment at the oncologist for Wednesday morning and post op follow up with Dr. Anthony also on Wednesday.

I jumped into the shower and changed my dressings covering my stitches on my neck. They seemed to be small and we thought there were only 4 but we later learned different

I change my dressing everyday after I shower. The best part is that I can shower as I would normally!

Off to bed! Medications are kicking in...