Don't No Body Bring Me No Bad News!

25 Brownie points to whomever can name that song. :)

It's a no bad news, all good news sort of day.

First....

No more stitches!!!

Well, that's not entirely true. There's one left. It's dissolvable so it will eventually fall out all by itself. But, all the rest of the stitches are gone. No need to restock my Neosporin supply (already went through one tube) and no need to go buy more dressings. Turn off the oven and open the door... I am DONE!

Not completely done, but done enough for now. Tattoos to follow in a few months.

More good stuff. The very expensive medication I started 2 months ago to bring my cholesterol and triglycerides back down to earth is actually working. My cholesterol is back down to normal! Yahoo! The triglycerides are back down to a shade above normal. I am confident I can bring them all the way down to normal once I add back my omega3 supplement. I had stopped taking it for my recent surgery, but that was 2 weeks ago, so it's time to add them back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know all about diet and exercise. My levels all went UP despite diet and exercise. That's what menopause and maybe some tamoxifen (in a small number of people.. like me!) will do for ya.

And even better, my LFTs were ALL normal. My cancer friends will understand that one! Each and everyone was normal except for the one they couldn't run because the specimen was hemolyzed. Sitting in the back of my brain for the last 2 months was the fact that one of the enzymes checked in that panel 2 months ago was out of the normal range. This is life living on the other side of Cancerville. The concept that the other shoe can drop without any warning. In most people, an elevation like that is usually totally meaningless. In someone with a history of the sort of cancer that likes to recur, an elevation in a simple blood test can be the first sign of something bad. The actual enzyme that was elevated is one that can rise in liver and bone mets. I know someone who had a small elevation, smaller than mine was, and it turned out, in retrospect to be the first sign of mets. So... big sigh of relief here today!