Wrapping up 2011 Written Dec 31, 2011 6:07pm Happy New Year’s Eve!! No news is good news in JoAnn’s recovery world. After relying heavily on Vicadin on Thursday, I have been sticking to extra strength Tylenol yesterday and today for discomfort–which has actually been infrequent. I’m not feeling severe pain (nothing like the pain after […]
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Thursday, December 29, 2011 2:35pm Hi All! Thanks so much for the great messages!!! They mean so much to me! Just a quick update today, before I go out in the backyard to relax on a cozy lawn chair. It’s about 70 degrees here in NOLA today and just beautiful. Yes, I am home from […]
Safely Out of Surgery!!!! Written Dec 28, 2011 7:02pm Just a quick message: I’m safely out of surgery!!!!!!! Thanks for everyone’s support and love!!! You all rock!!!!!!! Love, JoAnn
Surgery postponed to tomorrow Written Dec 27, 2011 7:53am I was going to send out a few more announcements about my cancer diagnosis last week, but with getting ready for Christmas, visiting doctors and doing pre-op, time slipped away. So if you are getting my news for the first time, please read my first journal […]
Monday, December 19, 2011 Well, I wrapped up 5 months of pretty intense teaching and almost a month of health limbo land Friday to find that: 1) I definitely have breast cancer in my right breast 2) The masses and calcifications are regional in nature so we’re looking at a mastectomy rather than a lumpectomy […]