Home from the surgery

This is Scott, finally updating the blog. Sorry about the delay but it has been a challenging few days. Our Julie is a real trooper. The surgery was thursday and she was in the OR for 9.5 hours and in PACU for another 2.5 hours. Didn't make it to her room until 10:30 thursday night. The next three days were just trying to get a handle on the pain. She said that she never imagined the extent of the pain she would need to endure and at one time she wished she would of chosen to not do the reconstruction. She said some other things too that I know she would never want repeated.  It was difficult to see someone you love so much be in such relentless pain. I'm very glad that her friend Heidi was there with us through the whole thing. She is a physical therapist with some nursing background and she did way more for Julie than many of the nurses. It's amazing the varying level of service you get. You can really tell the people that are passionate about what they do and the one's that just go through the motions. Good to be home and happy to be through that portion of the journey and I know Julie feels the same.
The surgery went well but they did find cancer in a sentinel lymph node on her right side which required them to do an axillary lymph node dissection. The final pathology will not be known for a few more days and that will ultimately determine the stage of her disease and the treatment plan from here. The left side lymph nodes were fine though, so that is good. More importantly, the source of the disease is all out of her body so that is even better.
We are so thankful to all our family and friends for their prayers and help. We have had to lean on many of you through this initial, challenging phase and we can not thank you enough. We are truly blessed.