{"id":231,"date":"2018-03-01T20:21:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T02:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anitacochranmusic.com\/blog\/?p=231"},"modified":"2018-03-05T08:29:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T14:29:20","slug":"best-news-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitacochranmusic.com\/blog\/best-news-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Best News Ever!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feb 28th<\/strong><\/p>\n

I woke up in a lot of pain across my whole chest area. Didn\u2019t really sleep at all.
\nI\u2019m not sure if the pain meds are even working..?? I can\u2019t lay all the way down because I wouldn\u2019t be able to get up and I have drain tubes in me in the sides so I can\u2019t lay on my sides either. So I\u2019m propped up but laying on sheets and I manage to keep slide down during the night and have to try to push myself back upright which really hurts. For the first two weeks you really are not to do anything really. Doctor said, do not lift anything over 5 pounds and absolutely no house work! Now what woman wouldn\u2019t want to hear that right?? It\u2019s very hard to move around as well. Just pretend you were a 38D bra size and someone forced you to wear a 28A size. Like it would cut you into right? That\u2019s how I feel times 100. Ouch is right.<\/p>\n

I went to see my plastic surgeon this morning and he said every thing looked great. They removed two of the drains \u2026one on each side. So I still have two left with hopefully will come out next week. The tubes are about 18\u201d inside you and about 18\u201d outside that drains into the grenade looking thing that you empty out once you mark how much drained into it. When the nurse removed the two tubes she told me to take a deep breath and then exhale fast. When I exhaled she pulled them out. Felt a little weird but it was really fast. Wasn\u2019t near as bad as I thought it would be.
\nI will see my plastic surgeon again next week. If he removes the last two drains we will moved forward with the next steps.<\/p>\n

March 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t sleep again last night. Just can\u2019t get comfortable at all. I had to get up early to see my surgeon today and get the results from my surgery and of my lymph node test. I\u2019ve been praying that the lymph node test comes back clean with no cancer. This would mean no radiation which I do not want radiation.<\/p>\n

I will say this. One of the worse days if not the worse is a doctor telling you you have cancer. But\u2026.one of the best days and it is the best day of your life is when a doctor tells you you are cancer free and that\u2019s when what my doctor told me today!!!! \u00a0Praise God!! \u00a0He said that he only removed one of my lymph nodes during surgery and the test result from that came back clean and that I wouldn\u2019t have to have radiation. He said they got clear margins thought everything looked great. \u00a0I sat there wanting to get up and squeeze him with the biggest hug ha ha. I even told him that I wanted too but I hurt to bad. He said my next visit I could hug him. I tried not crying while sitting there after getting the good new but I teared up some. \u00a0He told me that now it was time for me to get back to living! \u00a0My friend was with me. \u00a0I made my appointment to see him in 3 months and then we left. We got in the car and we were both very happy but almost tongue tied as to what to say. \u00a0We pulled out of the parking garage and my friend just bursted out into tears of happiness\u2019s and of course I did as well. \u00a0It was truly the best news ever!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m so grateful and thankful to my team of doctors and staff. \u00a0Through it all they always kept me positive this entire time. \u00a0I couldn\u2019t have made it this far without my caretaker, my friends and family. \u00a0My journey is not over by any means but right now the word \u201ccancer\u201d is not in front of my face. \u00a0Healing is. I will heal from this surgery and when I\u2019m healed I will have the final surgery and will continue my chemo of herceptin every three weeks until October. \u00a0I have a second chance at life and I am so very very lucky, grateful and thankful. \u00a0I so appreciate the doctors and staff but I also know that God must have not been finished with me here because he put his healing hand on me and I will forever be thankful to him. \u00a0He heard all the prayers from everyone and answered them. \u00a0So, thank you to all of you who said a prayer for me or sent me positive healing thoughts. \u00a0Today makes the first day of the rest of my new fabulous life!! \u00a0Please continue to pray that the rest of this journey goes well and soon this will all be behind me, behind us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Feb 28th I woke up in a lot of pain across my whole chest area. Didn\u2019t really sleep at all. I\u2019m not sure if the pain meds are even working..?? I can\u2019t lay all the way down because I wouldn\u2019t be able to get up and I have drain tubes in me in the sides […]<\/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-231","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\/231","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=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/anitacochranmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/anitacochranmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitacochranmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitacochranmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitacochranmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}