Jinni's surgery only took about an hour and a half including recovery time. All went well. She staying home today and tomorrow and expects to get back to work on Friday.
She now calls herself a padiddle (thanks Keith) and will remain as such for about a year before they will even consider reconstructive surgery.
A new pathology report will be available next Wednesday when we meet with Dr. Newman, her surgeon, again. During my post-op conversation with him I asked if her prognosis had changed because of the discovery of the infected "margins" and the involvement of two lymph nodes instead of the one we knew about. He informed me that her prognosis is still quite good, but her course of treatment and scheduled follow-up exams has been accelerated to achieve the desired result: a long life. He is quite confident that the upcoming course of Taxotere will knock out whatever cancer cells haven't yet taken the hint to go away.
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I'm headed back to South Boston, VA this morning to join my crew who is holed up in a motel up there while fixing the windows on a beautiful country estate outside of that cool little town. We are scheduled to finish up tomorrow late which will get me back to make additional Derby Party preparations.
To that, apparently some folks don't really think I am inviting you to join us on Saturday at around 3:00p until the cows come home sometime around 8:00p. I emailed a few of you over the last few days with a "are you coming, or not?" kind of tone and the response was like, "oh... you mean me?" Yeah, I meant you. Here is the criteria for whether or not you, as a reader/blogger, might be welcome in my home:
If you read this blog, and we have met either in person or through amicable correspondence, and we get along pretty well... you are invited. Just drop me an email first is all we ask: dhoggard@triad.rr.com.
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