Surgery date scheduled

Corky and I went to Duke yesterday April 24th for another MRI and a Dr. appointment with my surgeon. He gave me some options but I'm going to have double masectomy. He said that after radiation we can do reconstruction in six months. I thought originally he said a year but six months will be in January so that is just great. I also get to have a tummy tuck with the reconstruction to make the new ones. How about that-something positive after all this mess is done with. Corky says "son you will be right in a bikini next summer standing up in that mullet tower". He is so not right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway feeling really good these days, the metallic taste is still bad and I have about 4 tiny fever blisters on my lip from stress about the surgery. But most everyone says if you can get through chemo everything else is a breeze-so we'll see.
Oh yeah May 4th is the surgery date-chemo brain is pretty bad these days also.
Love Audra

My last big chemo today! YAY!!!!!!

Today I went for my last big chemo-the big sicko chemo! I will still have to go to Duke every three weeks for Herceptin to be given intravenously until Janurary. There is side effects to Herceptin but it doesn't make you sick and you don't lose your hair with it so yippee! It can cause some long term heart damage but I'm not going to dwell on that, just get the cancer gone. Today my dad and stepmom took me we arrived at 11:30 my appointment was at 12:30 and when they finally paged us around 3:45 I think we left around 5:30 or so. Long day. I am feeling a little better today, maybe because I know it is my last treatment, but then again every time I write that I feel ok I feel horrible the next few days so I hope I'm not jinxing myself here but I feel ok right now.
I have my next appointment on the 24th at 7am for ANOTHER MRI and a 10 am appointment with my oncology surgeon to find out when my surgery is and then I go back on May 1st for an Ecko on my heart and a doctors appointment with my oncologist and chemo Herceptin only.
So that's all for now-thanks to everyone for the continued prayers-they are a working!
Love to all, Audra

Feeling great this week!

I have felt great this past weekend and today, its crazy how I feel so good this week and Friday I get my last big treatment of chemo, Monday is my actual last chemo. Thank goodness.
I have had the best weekend with my family, my dad and stepmom took us out to eat Saturday night at Texas Steakhouse and we had a great time. Harlie was pleasant and that is always a plus with a teenager.
Someone said that I had too sad of songs on here so I have posted three of my favorite ones-hope you enjoy.
The Elton John, "your song" is one that I heard a year before Corky and I got married. We were watching a movie with that song in it and I said I love that song and he said he did too. Well when it came time for us to pick a song for our first dance we couldn't ever think of one. We were emailing our dj with different songs, so on our wedding day the dj came up to me and said you still didn't pick a song for you and Corky's first dance and I said oh just pick one ( I was about attled at that time) anyway he must of went up to Corky and he remembered. Isn't that just so sweet. He is the best!
The honey pie sugar bunch reminds me of when I was little and on Saturday afternoons daddy and Michelle would start cooking and daddy would lite the grill for the steaks and open the windows and turn on some beach music and that song reminds me of those special times, just being with family doing the most simple things. Isn't it funny how a song or smell of steaks on the grill can bring back the best memories.
The stevie nicks song reminds me of my mama-dancing around the house-hee hee! We had some fun times too.
Hope you enjoy the songs-I love them!