Welcome back to the website that chronicles Dr. Deb's adventures as she goes through the surgery and recovery process following a diagnosis of DCIS, a form of breast cancer. First, a little catch-up synopsis from where I left off before - Dr. Deb (with husband - me - in tow) has moved to Seattle, Washington to tackle a new work assignment. However, since we started the surgery process in Knoxville, we decided it would be a good idea to finish it up with the same surgical team we had in June. Thus, we are back in Knoxville and Deb's final (we hope) surgery is scheduled for 8:30 am tomorrow.
We arrived back in Knoxville late on Friday and had a full weekend of stuff to do, including volunteering as kitchen staff for our favorite chef, Bruce Bogartz, at his restaurant, RouXbarb. He has started doing a thing called "Feeding Forty", which brings in people from across the socio-economic spectrum and gets them to interact in a positive way over a great meal (which he provides free of charge). There were probably a dozen of us acting as kitchen and serving staff, and we all donated our time as well.
Yesterday we went to the hospital where Deb's surgery will be to do all of the pre-operative paperwork and blood work, and then went to see our general practitioner for a check-up and to let them in on what's happening.
Deb is working today, which will be the last day for a few weeks (three, I think). We have to be at the hospital by 7:00 am tomorrow, and as I said before, her surgery is scheduled for 8:30 am. I will be sitting in the waiting room after that, and will be posting updates across the day as I get them, so check back here for those. I will try to keep this space as up-to-date as possible.
So, on with Act 2, Scene 1...
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