Just the Facts: My bilateral mastectomy/reconstruction surgery is tomorrow.  I am ready!

Details: The waiting is finally over.  This journey that began even before my first biopsy in February is finally moving forward.  Tomorrow I will have bilateral mastectomy surgery, which will be followed by immediate reconstruction.  The mastectomy portion of surgery should last about 2 to 3 hours.  The reconstruction will last 3 to 3 1/2 hours.  I’ll be in recovery about 2 hours.  Sounds like a fun day to me!  :-)

Surgery is scheduled for 10:30am but will likely start closer to 11:30am.  We have to be at the hospital at 7:30am.

My husband, Tracy, will be writing on my Facebook wall when he gets updates from the doctors.  Later in the day he will post here.  I will be online tomorrow morning for as long as they let me keep my electronic devices.  Then sometime on Wednesday I will probably find my way online as well.

Prayer Requests: Please pray that all aspects of surgery will go smoothly. Pray that the pathology report tomorrow would confirm NO CANCER in the lymph nodes.  Pray for peace for Tracy, especially, as he waits tomorrow.  I am focused these verses tonight:  You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you! Isaiah 26:3 and For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future Jeremiah 29:11.

Me: Really ready.  So glad that the waiting is over.  I am eager to know the result of the pathology report.  In all honesty, since my diagnosis, I have not been comfortable in my own skin.  This part of me has felt as if it no longer “belonged”.  The only event that I dread is saying goodbye to the children in the morning.  But I’m ok with what we are doing.  It’s what needs to be done. I’m also very very grateful for the support, good wishes and prayers from so many friends.