{"id":229,"date":"2018-02-27T10:30:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T16:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anitacochranmusic.com\/blog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2018-02-27T10:30:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T16:30:30","slug":"healing-from-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitacochranmusic.com\/blog\/healing-from-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Healing From Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feb. 27th<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am still very very sore and still can\u2019t do hardly anything on my own. I don\u2019t feel that the pain has lightened up much at all. I will say the 4 drains they put in have not had much fluid in them over the last few days so hopefully I will get to have a couple of them removed tomorrow when I see the surgeon for my check up.
\nEverything feels pretty numb 24 hours per day and very painful at the same time. Sometimes a shooting pain comes out of nowhere and it sends the pain level to the sky! Thank God it doesn\u2019t last long. It\u2019s a painful stinging feeling.
\nMost of the pain has been in the center of my chest which I find odd. Maybe it\u2019s deferred pain? The incisions aren\u2019t hurting like I thought they would.
\nMy pec muscles hurt really bad. They had to remove them and reattach them when they put the expanders in. It also hurts and sometimes stings on my sides were the tubes were installed. Still dealing with chemo side effects on top of the breast surgery. My leg muscles are a tiny bit better but still very weak. My neuropathy in my feet went away during surgery and stayed gone until yesterday Feb 26th. For some reason it started hurting again really bad. That was upsetting because I thought it went away for good. I\u2019m taking two Gabapentins a day now, pain meds every 4 hours and a muscle relaxer every 8 hours. I am getting a little more sleep at night. I\u2019m chalking that up to the muscle relaxers. I\u2019m not writing all of this to complain, I\u2019m simply letting everyone know what you go through when you have this illness.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m so thankful that my cancer is treatable (crossing fingers\/saying prayers) but wow had this been a long journey so far. Like I\u2019ve said before in my journal, I am not one to sit on the couch all day. I\u2019m just not a couch potato at all. Now that the weather in TN has been warmer with sunshine it\u2019s killing me to not be outside. I hate being trapped on the couch inside anyway but when it\u2019s nice outside it only make it worse. I see yard work that already needs to be done. Weeds need to be pulled out of the flower beds. This is going to be a hard summer for me. I won\u2019t be able to get travel for shows, drive my tractor, remodel anything (I love to remodel and yes I do the work). I\u2019m guessing I will live in my studio writing and recording my new record. At least a good thing will come out of all of this trapped inside situation.<\/p>\n

When I was first told I had cancer, people would tell me \u201cthis is your job for the next year and a half. Your job now is to fight and heal\u201d. Trust me, they were right. It\u2019s a full time job having cancer or any serious illness. You fight and fight. From doctor appointments to doctor appointments. Feeling ill all the time, managing your hospital bills on top of your normal bills getting paid. I am so very thankful for my friends who have really been there for me thru all of this. I could have never done it alone. It takes you and your friends. You create this little army to help you fight. I\u2019m so thankful of my little army\u2026my team. I sure wouldn\u2019t have wanted to go through this fight without them. I am so blessed to have them. And as my doctor explained to me not long ago. She said I was in a marathon and I was trying to sprint though it. She said I needed to slow down and quit trying to rush things. That I wouldn\u2019t be through this until 1.5 years from time of first treatment. This mean\u2026next spring I will be back to my old self.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a little nervous for the test result of my lymph node that was removed during surgery. They normally remove 2 during surgery but my doctor only removed one from what we know. He told my family and friends after surgery that he removed the lymph node that showed positive for cancer before I started chemo. That when he removed it during surgery it didn\u2019t look like it had cancer in it but he sent it out for testing. This test takes about 10 days to come back. I\u2019m asking everyone to PLEASE PRAY that the test comes back clean of any cancer. If it comes back clean I will not have to have radiation! After having all the chemo I really don\u2019t want my body to go thru radiation also.
\nI have a few errands to run today so at least I will get to be outside riding in a car and see the sunshine:) I hope everyone has a warm sunny day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Feb. 27th I am still very very sore and still can\u2019t do hardly anything on my own. I don\u2019t feel that the pain has lightened up much at all. I will say the 4 drains they put in have not had much fluid in them over the last few days so hopefully I will get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitacochranmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitacochranmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitacochranmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitacochranmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitacochranmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anitacochranmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/anitacochranmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitacochranmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitacochranmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitacochranmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}