Night before Surgery

It's the night before Mom's surgery and all through the house....oops wrong story!

Actually, the night before surgery equals nerves and nervous stomach. I will be heading to bed soon, trying my best to sleep and turn off the thoughts going through my mind. 5am is going to get here very quickly.

Mom has to be at the hospital to be admitted at 7am. At 7:30am, she heads down to the radiation department to get the dye injected for the sentinal lymph node biopsy. Mom's actual mastectomy is at 9am. So, once she is out of radiology, then we will sit in the surgical waiting room until they are ready to prep her for surgery. Once she is prepped and ready to go, Dr. Pratt will inject another dye at surgery time as well. This is to find the lymph nodes, so a few can be removed for a biopsy. The lymph nodes will be taken to pathology during the surgery. They will be determined to be negative for cancer or positive for cancer. They will let Dr. Pratt know. If they are negative for cancer, then Dr. Pratt will not have to go back to remove any more lymph nodes. If they are positive for cancer, then Dr. Pratt will go back in and remove any where up to 19 (depends on the person) lymph nodes. I'm keeping fingers, toes, eyes, everything crossed that there isn't cancer in the lymph nodes. The surgery should take up to 3 hours. When Mom wakes up, she should be in her own room, that will be her's for the night.

Tonight was extra hugs and kisses from Beckett and Brynn. Beckett asked Mom where her "boo boo" was. We told him that it was inside right now. I have told him that he can give gentle hugs to Mama, because she will have a "boo boo". Sue says that Beckett will be going through Mama and Papa withdrawls for the next few weeks until Mom is ready to have him visit. I'm sure that he will be.

Sue purchased a "farewell" card for Mom's left breast and brought some cake! Now that is a great way to get the positive and funny vibes going!

Tomorrow is going to be a very long day......