Wow we got Johanna having her 2nd surgery the 27th, Mucker the 28th, and I am on for the 30th. Good luck to everyone!

may the surgery gods be smiling on us all!!!!

Yes, the surgery GODS, ANGELS will be looking upon ALL of you
GOOD LUCK everyone!

Yes, best of luck to all three of you!

The "Trifecta" of surgeries!!

prayers hugs and much love to all three of you!!!
hey good things come in three.....the power of three is very strong!!!

love and hugs,
Victoria

Are any of you going to the same place? - That would be a hoot

Best wishes and a safe journey for all of you

First i would like to say thank you all for your best wishes and prayers. That is cool that three of us well all be going in on the same week. I wish that we would be all going to the same place at lest then we could comfort one another in our time of pain. But i well be here in Nova Scotia and oh sea pines yes my doctor is Drew Bethune as far as my surgery he well go through my armpit and do a partial scalenectomy and remove a rib i think any way. He well go over every thing be for they but me under. I have faith in him he has done hundreds of these surgeries. And yes i well be praying hard for a cutie male nurse and that he well be around in time for the sponge bath ha ha ha.

MuckerI don't know about the male nurse. Your'e usually not at your best after surgery. I had one after my disc replacement. Took bone from my hip. Not fun having a male nurse checking your incision!

Best of luck to all of you! Make sure you rest and take care of yourselves!

Linda

Alison- you are right, i am here with Dr Ahn in LA, right side rib resection +partial scalenectomy. for those wondering, no i am not all better from the left side but i have seen some improvement. Still hoping for more for sure.


Fall is always such a busy time for my family...soccer season starts up, the kids birthdays all go aug, sept, oct, school starting (my little kids both start a new one on sep 5) i am just not coping very well. I feel like my head is splitting open and my brains are flying away to the sky.

result- i am not feeling happy or excited about this surgery, just scared and worried about how to get through with a lot less help than I had hoped from my parents/inlaws. My hubby is also very emotionally drained right now, and instead of finding a way to pump eachother up we seem to be in a bad downward spiral...i can't wait till it's over.

funny how we pretty much will be spread evenly across north america having our surgeries- LA, Denver, and Nova Scotia.

thanks to everyone for your well wishes, they really mean a lot to me.

ok as a nurse I worked with very few male nurses....but the ones I did work with three out of about 50 of us......one was gay but in denial or refused to tell us....the other one was very happily married with kids and a damn amazing nurse Jeff I hope you are still nursing in Oncology!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sorry...ok
so the third was a huge playa!!!!! nasty boy couldn't trust him but a good nurse.....not good to talk to but good looking.....so if they are there remember a huge portion of them were not interested....sorry gals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i digress.....so hugs gentle ones.....as sea pines says.....pre surgery feelings....I was sort of detached I tried not to think of it and it worked denial and ignorance is a great thing!!! lol.....so I just kept up the facade of pain and ignorance and then after felt pain but such a different kind...ACUTE not the chronic kind!!!!!!!!! so it was liberating!

so again best of luck to our power of three!

love and hugs,
Victoria