Plans for after surgery

I am a person who likes to be in control, so I am trying to set little goals, projects, action plans that I might implement after the surgery. Of course all are dependent on my treatment plans that will be determined after the surgery. My priority is to get well asap and I am not fooling myself otherwise.

But to wait like a sitting duck !! uh uhh that just does not do it for me.

So I think my restrictions after the mastectomy are:

- 2 weeks - No activity whatsoever ( 'huh doc, what do you EXACTLY mean by no activity, I certainly can still take long walks right ?' ) they made it clear that no movement really means no movement, not even a walk around the block. Plus I will have 4 drains. The drains will come out when the production is less than 20 ml and the more I move the more I will be producing, so there's my motivation of keeping put.

It is awesome that Fred thought about the fuel belt for the drains.

- 3rd week - I might be able to drive but no activities other than that.

- After 3 weeks -light activity is allowed. Avoid overheating the body

( there goes doing anything outdoors)

- After 6 week can start slowly with workouts.

Activity Plans:

Since running will be jarring it probably is out of the short term plans for sure.

But I have a solution !!! I might be able to keep my already measly running efficiency without braking the rules.

Aqua jogger belt!

I can run in the pool. That way I can just go in my pool and do water running, my body temperature will be controlled by the water and there will be no jarring to hurt the new boob placeholders aka expanders.

(too bad I can not throw my bike trainer along with my bike in the pool too )

I also have to get my heart rate monitor back into commission if I can keep the heart rate down and body temperature stable I do not see any reason why I can not start doing this once I get clearance from the doc to go in the pool.

I have to be creative to keep on moving.

One might say that I am overzealous and should take one step at a time, but thats just me, if I can not see or imagine what is (or might be) ahead I do not feel comfortable. And I am very flexible in making changes according to whatever is thrown my way and will never lose sight of what my main goal is.

Other Plans:

In my Pre-cancer life I never had time to sit down and enjoy some shows that I heard a lot about, so today I went ahead and rented 4 cd's for Losts 1st season. When we are done with this we could move on to Sopranos.

Tomorrow will go to the library and check out a Learn Spanish cd set, thats something that I always wanted to do but never got to it.

Plus there are a lot of awesome books that are patiently waiting for my tlc, collecting dust for a couple of years.

Hmm seems like I will be pretty busy these upcoming days.

Tomorrow is the last day before surgery so I will do stuff that I like doing and pamper myself.

Random plugin:I really am thinking that removing the tumors and surrounding areas are really an overkill .. just like cutting of the Gordian knot by Alexander.. a solution to reverse the degeneration of DNA really should be found. -- sigh!