First Shower and changed my bandage...OUCH!

Hello All,

So I have been taking little bird baths and using baby wipes since my 2nd  biopsy. I am glad that the biopsy was clear for cancer..but now I have this huge gash in my breast and it does not look like it is closing.

I was very surprised they only gave me an icepack and no meds. My doc said to take Tylenol..no Aleve or advil because they thin your blood and to ice it for days (1 hour on 1 hour off) until it feels better.

So I have been doing that and today I thought, "I will take m first shower and maybe i will drive after my shower and get out of my house..."

So I took a shower and let the water seep through the thin star-shaped tape bandage over my wound. I could see a bruise around it. I started to take it off little by little as the tape was really stuck good on there!

So I get out of the shower and I only have the tiny bit of tape that is over the wound to go...you know, that is the hardest part to get off AND......Aye! THERE IS A GIANT GAPING, GASHING, HOLE UNDER THERE!

I almost passed out, I mean I was seeing stars, and my hubby came in and helped me take off the rest.  He has worked in labs with animals and has done surgeries before, so he was not at all shocked by the stab-wound on my very tiny breast.

He was calm and collected, and took some band-aids and criss-crossed them over the wound while I hollered like a big baby. Then I threw up.

The wound looks as if it happened this morning, instead of five days ago.It doesn't look like it is closing or healing yet becasue it is a HUGE wound.

And here I was thinking I would drive myself to the promenade and sit on a bench under a tree just to get out of here for a minute. 

No wonder I could feel every step I take reverb in my breast as if I was Goliath, stomping about. 

I gotta lean back and take it easy. The dishes are piling up, laundry needs to be folded, and Dylan is working way too hard to have me just sitting here like an invalid.

But such is life. Frankie Says RELAX.

Love Peg.