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Tomorrow I get more permanent boobs!

Hello friends, I have been woefully inactive on this blog, mostly because I've been fortunate enough to be able to turn away from cancer for a bit and focus on my dissertation. Of course, I've still been doing my immunotherapy infusions once every three weeks, and have had the stray rough night of tangential aches and pains here and there. But I've mostly been feeling healthy enough to direct my energy towards work and the occasional socially distant gathering.

That will have to change tomorrow, though, as I turn my focus back to chugging along in cancerland. I'm writing this brief little post to update anybody out there (hello? is there anybody out there?) that tomorrow is a surgery day. It is finally my exchange surgery, where my plastic surgeon swaps out my temporary tissue expanders for more permanent* implants. The expanders are pretty tight and uncomfortable, and I hear the implants are much more comfy, so I'm relieved to be moving forward with it. The surgeon will also take fat from my thighs and stick that fat around my new fake boobs. Yum. Recovery takes about 2 weeks, though it'll be 6 weeks without lifting or swimming.

Unfortunately, MSKCC still has a no visitors policy, so I was very sad to think that I'd be flying solo tomorrow. That is, until my dear friend and MSKCC employee extraordinaire, Allix, offered to sneak into the surgery center at the ass-crack of dawn to keep me company. She is a true friend, and I'm so grateful that I'll have a familiar face around before they wheel me into the OR tomorrow morning. Thanks, Dowey <3.

So, as Nicole and Steve memorialized for me on the below Carvel cake** that we cut into this past weekend, happy perfect tiddies day to me. Though no tiddies will ever be like the old ladies I used to schlepp around. Bref. See you on the other side!



*From my understanding, these new babies will last about ten years! 
**This move was an homage to a tradition that Elana started during chemo last year, bringing me beautiful Carvel cakes during Friday night dinners.

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