Monday, March 19, 2012

Boston 2.0



(Hospital room view)


Today I get to be discharged. :)

Right now Eric is down in the cafeteria getting breakfast and I am sitting in my hospital bed getting really excited to begin this next chapter of Life. That chapter started this morning when one of my doctors said results of blood tests showed my cortisol levels were undetectable. This is awesome news for support of Thursday's surgery being a success. Further testing over the next few weeks will really nail things down, but this initial test was a big scary monster of expectation. ...And I passed.:) We have a lot to be grateful for. Mass General is a really good hospital. They have excellent staff, expertise, and facilities. We also have awesome friends and family who give us lots of loves and support. The hard part is over. To say we are anxious to go back to Oklahoma and watch my body morph back to its familiar shape/size and energy/strength/health would be a slight understatement. :) We know we are lucky. We enjoyed some of that luck on Saturday. Eric surprised me with a St. Patrick's Day cupcake. (Don't worry... he also downloaded music from Riverdance and fancied himself a little jig too.)

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Endoscopic Transphenoidal wiccah wha?

Oh hey,

One week from today. WhOOAaa!, Cushing's update comingatchya...

Monday: Fly to Boston
Tuesday: CT/Pre-Op Powwow/Anesthesiologist Huddle
Wednesday: Mental Preparedness Day
Thursday: Up the Nose with a Bitty Hose DAY!
Friday: Pain Killer Laced Dreamy Sleep Recovery Day
Saturday: St. Patrick's Day (in BOSTON)

We'll stick around Boston for about a week or so and then head home to Oklahoma where I'll get to have another week of putzin' around before going back to work. Two weeks post op I'll have some tests done to see if the surgery was successful and wahLAH!, road to recovery. I'm choosing to be optimistic. Lets.

Fancy a peaksy? (enter at your own risk!)

Endoscopic Endonasal Transphenoidal Macroadenoma Removal

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Other rated (not for chilrins' eyes)



(If you ventured there, know that my tumor is not as big, bad and ugly as this one. Mine is a microadenoma which is smaller than a grain of rice. I chose this video because it's the one that best shows the entire surgical process. So there. )

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Proposal

This. is. awwwwwesome...

Source: reddit.com via Josh on Pinterest



(Lindsay is in fact the girl in the front and she did say yes, I would know because I was holding up one of the signs! the guy right behind her is her fiance, Chris. I carried a backpack around all day with the signs folded up in the laptop sleeve along with snacks and jackets so she wouldnt suspect anything. The 5 of us behind her practiced holding the signs the day before so they wouldnt block each other from view.)