6 Months is here already!!

It's that time again!  Six months came up fast...  So!  I saw Dr. Yee and she would really prefer to wait on the scan.  It is out of concern for the amount of radiation I have been exposed to over the past few years.  Wow!  Someone is actually as concerned as I am.  What a "fresh" perspective?!?!?! 

She questioned and examined me and since I don't have any obvious symptoms of recurrance we are going to err on the side of "radiation" caution.  I am still having great difficulties with movement and pain but I have been told this is my new body.  All of my doctors have expressed their primary focus was to save me and deal with the consequences later.

MY consequences are lack of mobility on my left side and horrible swelling due to lymphadema.  It really, really sucks!  The swelling is terrible and seems to progress with each day.  I've usually got about 2 hours of bending and sitting/standing a day and then I'm done!  It is extremely painful.  So we are trying to come up with good plans to help tolerate my "new" body. 

I understand the philosophy shared by all of my doctors....that is to stop this from getting worse and deal with the side effects of treatment.  But man!  This is not at all what I'd imagine my recovery would be.  I falsely believed I would go back to the normal me and carry on with life.  I am, just in a much different way than I'd imagined. 

Repeat scan in December, God willing with the same results :-)

Stacey