I am officially seven days out from my mastectomy! This week has been a doozy and the surgery really took it out of me. Both of my surgeons did an amazing job as well as the anesthesia and nursing team. I really could not ask for a better medical team. The surgery ended up taking about nine hours or so and I did end up staying the night and discharged the next afternoon. It took a while for the anesthesia to fully wear off and some of the pain medicine made me pretty woozy so I’ve been getting by with scheduled Tylenol and an anti-inflammatory and done pretty well. Going through the surgery and coming out with less body parts than I went in with has definitely been a challenge mentally plus just trying to recover. I am so grateful that my husband has been walking our mile with me a couple times a day and I’ve had some really great friends stop by with meals and even just to walk with me. I just can’t speak enough to how much going on these walks has helped in so many ways. The dressing changes are hard just because of the reality of what will be there as a permanent reminder, but I was told today by a lady who had cancer many many years ago, that the small sacrifice ultimately is allowing me the opportunity to live a long wonderful life. It was an interesting perspective, but made sense. I’ve been recovering day by day and getting better day by day. My drain should be coming out soon then we can move on to the next part. I do think I have officially been through the worst part of all of this between surgery and chemotherapy, so it’s just uphill from here! Thank you all so much for the prayers Support and how you have helped her family in so many ways. I am so thankful for the photographer that was able to take our anniversary pictures before my surgery in my wedding dress the night before I had my mastectomy and also for my husband for taking an amazing picture of me super high on anesthesia medicine ;) I’m pretty sure when he took this picture the ceiling was spinning circles above me, but not sure😂😂😂