I'll try to break this story down to as short as I can to explain my absence. I saw my last happy posting was in April, in May we worked on selling our house, in June, at a regular prenatal physical I had a lump in my breast looked at. Long story short, I was diagnosed (after the biopsy, a lumpectomy and lymphnodal section) with Stage 2 Triple Negative Breast Cancer. After the surgery I went home, had a day of rest, then the movers came and packed up the house. We then moved into the military hotel to await our flight to TX, and in the hotel room I went into preterm labor and I had the twins at 30 weeks. Good news: they were over 3 lbs each and HEALTHY.
My friend gave our family her house to stay at while she was on vacation and we were stuck, our orders on delay. While in recovery I got the word from my breast surgery that I had stage 2 Triple Negative Breast Cancer, with 2 positive lymphnodes and positive margins.
That week we worked on getting new orders and the twins medivaced from WA to TX, I flew 1 week after the emergency cesarean with hubby, 4 kiddos and cat, and we made it. The twins arrived the next day and went into the NICU at a nearby hospital. We got a house within days, unpacked, and I went right into surgery and had a double mastectomy. The twins came home after a total of 5+ weeks in the NICU and were baptized the same week I began my chemotherapy treatment. I finished chemo in November, got the holidays off, and began then the 35 treatments of radiation which I just finished the beginning of Feb. I have some time off again until my next CT and PET scans, and in March see the plastic surgeon to talk about reconstructive surgery.
Good news, the twins are home and healthy and thriving, no developmental delays at all! I am slowly coming out of my chemo and radiation comas and beginning to feel my old self again. The kids have been great, my husband my biggest supporter and I have felt the Lord hold my hand through this entire journey.
My latest research has been of course, on cancer. Nutrition plays such a huge roll in recovery and recurrence, but how do we weight loss surgery peoples deal with these foods? I'm working on it, do I smell ANOTHER blog to come? Who knows.
If you have any questions for me, please post them as a comment and I will get right back to you. I hope many of you have had some help in pregnancy while being a weight loss surgery pt from this blog and I hope the info stored on it continues to help others!
God bless,
Mrs. Murphy
Where have I been?
4 years ago
