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Moving On From the Big C. Love, Amy: March 24, 2023: Seven Weeks of Healing Done. More energy. Waiting for Operation 2. :)

Happy spring!
Week 7 of healing completed!


Week 7 of healing and I am so grateful to everyone for their support!
Time is passing, here I am in front of our paint-by-sticker poster and you can see it's starting to fill up with color.

Thank you so much for the dinners, phone calls, emails, & visits.
Friends, you all have been the best.
Thank you for helping me and Erik keep things running smoothly.
🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡

I have been hard at work mastering how to sleep soundly again! It's taken a bit of getting use to the way my chest feels and responds to gravity is different. Slowly I've been getting my energy back - it's really just been a matter of getting back into regular sleep.

I am back to working out, and I'm regaining my mobility in my shoulders.  I still get tired more easily, but I'm back to driving.  And I'm very happy about climbing back on the stair stepper in the mornings!  I'm so looking forward to getting even more energy back and getting out into nature - going hiking and seeing more of the world.

Operation 2: prosthetic breast reconstruction. We have a date to do the second surgery in my breast reconstruction journey: first week in May.  The second surgery is called a tissue-expanders-implant-exchange (there is one expander per foob).  The tissue-expanders are to be replaced with more permanent implants.  It is expected that recovery from these surgeries will be much more speedier than the first set of surgeries.  And I am excited to get that phase completed so that I can move on to getting back to work on more projects, big and small! 

I expect to post again some time in May.

In the meantime, have a wonderful spring season.

🧡Amy





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