BS: I'm going under the knife Thurs 13 May

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife Thurs 13 May
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 19 May 10 - 02:30 AM

Get well quick!

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife Thurs 13 May
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 18 May 10 - 06:24 PM

All best wishes Robyn, and hope you get to the session!

Kitty

Subject: RE: BS: Update on Little Robyn
From: Little Robyn
Date: 18 May 10 - 03:51 PM

Hi Mingulay,
Maybe I could come with you as Mrs Ivor Titoff.
Or you could go to China as Won Hunglo?
Things are still going well.
I'm a bit stiff under the arm but I keep doing the exercises.
I guess it helped that I was fit and well before the op and it wasn't as if I was a double D to start with - more like a storm in an A cup!
It's Wednesday morning here - maybe I can go with Mitch to the session tonight??? I promise I'll just sit quietly - and I won't drink too much. Can I have just one?
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife Thurs 13 May
From: Mingulay
Date: 18 May 10 - 12:26 PM

Hope all goes well for you Robyn, I was under the knife myself at the end of January with suspected testiculat cancer. Thankfully the tests on the offending article proved negative and I was out the same day. However the wound somehow became infected and caused a huge abcess so I was back under again at Easter to rectify it. I regard it as a warranty job! Still wondering if I should move to Russia and change my name to Ivor Bollockoff!!

Mingulay
Still vertical and breathing.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife Thurs 13 May
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 17 May 10 - 09:50 PM

I was telling a friend who is a nurse about your short stay in hospital. Her comment - Routine operation, no complications - routine recovery after surgery.

I'm sure life was different when another friend had a mastectomy in 1978 & when her neighbour had one 20 years before.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife Thurs 13 May
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 17 May 10 - 07:06 PM

Robyn, those results read exactly like my wife's results some seven years ago now, and she is still completely clear, so I have a feeling that you've beaten the beast.

Very best wishes to you from both of us

Don & Winnie T.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife Thurs 13 May
From: JennieG
Date: 17 May 10 - 07:24 AM

Best wishes from across the ditch!

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife Thurs 13 May
From: LilyFestre
Date: 16 May 10 - 10:45 PM

Hey Girl,

    You're still on my mind.

Be well.

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife Thurs 13 May
From: Janie
Date: 16 May 10 - 08:37 PM

*smiles*

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife Thurs 13 May
From: Little Robyn
Date: 16 May 10 - 05:43 PM

Morning all,
The District Nurse has called and checked my bits. The drains have both been taken out now so I slept better last night.
I feel almost normal for an hour or two and then I need to sit down for awhile.
We had prefrozen dinner last night but then I crawled off to bed and left Mitch to do the dishes. Someone else is cooking tonight's dinner for us so that will be very nice.
I think I'll head back to bed now and get stuck in to the latest Diana Gabaldon book which I've had since last year but haven't had time to read.
It's 20 to 10 on a lovely sunny morning, in Autumn here.
What a great life!
See you later,
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife Thurs 13 May
From: olddude
Date: 16 May 10 - 05:02 PM

Robyn
please heal up and get playing again soon my friend
still in my prayers

Love Dan

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife Thurs 13 May
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 May 10 - 05:00 PM

Fortunately, they took away the drugs. It was that or the credit card.
How are you today, Robyn? Sometimes the weariness takes a few days to hit.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife Thurs 13 May
From: olddude
Date: 16 May 10 - 04:40 PM

Hey Sins,
I have a bunch of old tires I would let go for 15 bucks on your credit card ... LOL

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife Thurs 13 May
From: gnu
Date: 16 May 10 - 01:44 PM

SINS.... hahahaaa

Keep on truckin LR!

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife Thurs 13 May
From: Leadfingers
Date: 16 May 10 - 01:12 PM

Hope all continues to go well !!

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife Thurs 13 May
From: GUEST,skarpi
Date: 16 May 10 - 06:14 AM

Hugs and prayers for you,
{{{{{Robyn}}}} get well in you r own time
from ash land (Iceland)

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife Thurs 13 May
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 May 10 - 05:55 PM

Hell Sisns, you were lucky! I'm still paying for a quonset hut in the Aleutian Islands...........

Great news Robbo!   

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife Thurs 13 May
From: Big Phil
Date: 15 May 10 - 03:43 PM

All the best for a swift recovery.

Big Phil.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife Thurs 13 May
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 May 10 - 11:12 AM

Word of warning: DO NOT WATCH THE SHOPPING CNANNEL WHILE ENJOYING GOOD DRUGS. Shortly after I stopped the painkillers I received a box of about fifty children's watches all with dead batteris. My credit card statement said I paid $15 for them. LOL.
It seemed a bargain at the time.
Be well. Heal.
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife Thurs 13 May
From: Little Robyn
Date: 15 May 10 - 07:27 AM

I've been dozing in front of the telly for a few hours and I feel quite good now.
It's bedtime here but I'm not tired at the moment.
They checked the lymph nodes while I was on the table and they were clear but the actual lump has been sent away for testing and those results should take about a week.
Otherwise everything was routine, my blood pressure, pulse and temperature all stayed stable and I've been given pain killers that I keep forgetting to take because I'm not in much pain.
It just pulls a bit when I try to do the exercises - lifting my arms and stretching - I'm a bit stiff in places.
At least it was on the bag side, not the bellows side, see here.

Cheers,
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife Thurs 13 May
From: jacqui.c
Date: 15 May 10 - 07:22 AM

Good to see you posting. Rest and recover.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife Thurs 13 May
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 15 May 10 - 06:19 AM

Hi Robyn.

Good to see you back so soon. Take as much healing rest as you need.

tam - still putting out good thoughts for your quick recovery.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife Thurs 13 May
From: Bugsy
Date: 15 May 10 - 12:36 AM

Just found this thread (boon off the 'puter for a couple of days).

I'm SO GLAD everything went well for you!

You have exactly the right attitude to beat this. I'll keep you in my thoughts and prayers.

With love


Bugsy

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife Thurs 13 May
From: LilyFestre
Date: 14 May 10 - 10:13 PM

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh.......nothing like being home and in your own bed!!!! That's THE best!!!!   

My roommate and I didn't sleep the first night in the hospital either....that was pretty much wishful thinking!!! We both had catheters so there were no trips to the bathroom....just pain and restlessness.

I'm so glad to hear you are home. I'm not sure what your medical info means....do you have to wait for the pathology results or ????

Let your family, friends and visiting nurses take care of you....sit back and resist any urges you have to get up and do things....at least for a few days!

Love & Hugs,

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife Thurs 13 May
From: Cuilionn
Date: 14 May 10 - 10:06 PM

Healing blessings...

and more power to your elbow!

(Now there's less frontal obstructionary material, so you may look forward to piping like...well, like an Amazon!)

--Cuilionn, who is happily surrounded by bagpipery and thinks bagpipe-playing women are wonderful!

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife Thurs 13 May
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 14 May 10 - 09:54 PM

me too

sending gentle cyberhugs.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife Thurs 13 May
From: Janie
Date: 14 May 10 - 09:29 PM

Dang, LR. From your pre-op description, I assumed you were having a lumpectomy.

Rest well. Heal well. May those margins prove to not have been exceeded. Like many others, I will continue to hold you in my thoughts and meditations.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife Thurs 13 May
From: gnu
Date: 14 May 10 - 09:21 PM

Dunno what all the means, but I hope it's good. Blob away!

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife Thurs 13 May
From: Little Robyn
Date: 14 May 10 - 09:11 PM

Hi all, I'm home again and it's all over - well, sort of.
Thank you for all your good wishes.
Michelle, I was in with 2 other women and the first night we hardly slept at all. Between the 3 of us, we must have used the bathroom a dozen times. But last night I slept like a log and I was ready to get out by 10am.
My notes say:
.....elective L mastectomy and sentinal node biopsy for a L breast lump. Surgery proceded on 13/5 without complication - 4 nodes removed, close lateral margin so further tissue taken.
Routine post op, obs remained stable, efebrile.

So now I'm just gonna blob in front of the telly (when I've finished on the computer) and the district nurse will come around to fix up dressings and tubes, tomorrow and next week.
Thanks again.
See you later.
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife tomorrow
From: Janie
Date: 14 May 10 - 06:33 PM

Yes!

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife tomorrow
From: LilyFestre
Date: 13 May 10 - 11:04 PM

Hi Robyn,

   I'm getting ready for bed and you are on my mind. Someone has to say it, so it may as well be me. I hope they gave you the GOOD pain meds and that you ask for them as often as you need to. My surgeon told me there was no reason that I (or anyone else) needs to be in pain....so here's to excellent pain management!!!!
   I hope you have a roomate who doesn't snore, a comfy bed and enough quiet to get some rest.

Be well my friend,

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife tomorrow
From: olddude
Date: 13 May 10 - 09:52 PM

Thinking of you and still in my prayers for a full, complete and speedy recovery my friend

DAn

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife tomorrow
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 May 10 - 07:44 PM

Thanks for keeping us up to date, Mitch!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife tomorrow
From: Hawker
Date: 13 May 10 - 05:31 PM

Holding your hand Robyn, keeping you in my thoughts and hoping you'll be healed, healthy and raring to go in no time.
Cheers, Lucy x

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife tomorrow
From: ClaireBear
Date: 13 May 10 - 04:23 PM

I missed this earlier, so sorry to chime in late. My best wishes, with hopes for an early and complete recovery. And, may you rejoice in the feeling of being more alive and conscious of your life than ever before -- a feeling that I remember well. That is cancer's gift, and it's a good one.

Gentle hugs,
Claire

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife tomorrow
From: MikeL2
Date: 13 May 10 - 02:32 PM

Hi Robyn

The very best reagards to you and also the best of luck. I hope you have speedy return to full health.

You have the right attitude to beat the beast.

Regards

MikeL2

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife tomorrow
From: artbrooks
Date: 13 May 10 - 11:10 AM

Good to hear that it all went well...knock wood.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife tomorrow
From: Severn
Date: 13 May 10 - 11:06 AM

All the best to you from another who has survived small cell cancer confined to the lymphatic system (now in complete remission after chemo treatments). I'll be rooting for you and be following your progress as it's posted. We're all here for you, as the Mudcat community was there for me in my recent times of trouble. Please keep us all up on your progress.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife tomorrow
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 13 May 10 - 10:03 AM

Again best wishes from my wife and I.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife tomorrow
From: LilyFestre
Date: 13 May 10 - 10:02 AM

Hey Mitch!!!

    Thank you for taking the time to send us all an update!!!   Give Robyn my love and let her know that there are lots of us thinking about her today!!! So glad the surgery is over.....let the healing begin! :)

Love,

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife tomorrow
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 13 May 10 - 08:30 AM

thanks for keeping us updated Mitch... more light and healing thoughts headed your way Robyn.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife tomorrow
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 May 10 - 07:36 AM

Good news. Now get home and rest and pamper yourself.
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife tomorrow
From: jacqui.c
Date: 13 May 10 - 07:34 AM

Great news - here's to a speedy and full recovery.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife tomorrow
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 May 10 - 05:07 AM

Thanks, Mitch, for letting us know. That is good knews about her arm and all. {{{{{{HUGS}}}}} for you both with lots of thanks givings for continued good tidings coming from Colorado.

kat

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife tomorrow
From: My guru always said
Date: 13 May 10 - 04:47 AM

Thanks for the update!! Sending positive thoughts!

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife tomorrow
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 13 May 10 - 03:26 AM

Thinking of you x

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife tomorrow
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 13 May 10 - 03:12 AM

ditto

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife tomorrow
From: open mike
Date: 13 May 10 - 02:31 AM

every wish for successful outcome...rise above that knife!!

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife tomorrow
From: catspaw49
Date: 13 May 10 - 12:42 AM

Hey Mitch...........Thanks for the update. We'll be hanging round for awhile 'cause we care and 'cause we're all too damn lazy to go anywhere else. Best of everything to Robbo....and you too!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: I'm going under the knife tomorrow
From: Gurney
Date: 13 May 10 - 12:37 AM

Good wishes from us, of course. The sooner Robyn has the bellows under her elbow, the happier we'll be.   Chris and Judy.