Hello all. Thanks for all the good vibes, prayers, and even (so I hear) a chicken sacrifice, not to mention the candle to OLAC (Our Lady of the Chocolate, but what's the A for?). I appreciate everyone's good wishes. I woke my husband up at 2 am Sunday morning and made him take out my surgical drain. It felt much better once that was out. Saw the surgeon today and he was amazed at my green breast -- said he didn't know why there was so much internal bleeding. :( It feels engorged, which is a really strange feeling without having a newborn around! I have been wearing my cabbage leaves -- the doctor was skeptical that cabbage leaves help, so I gave him an earful. I don't have my appointment with the "onco-docs" til October 15th, so no news yet on what is ahead. Except that of course, I will be visiting Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, and Chicago next week with Karen Gromada on the LLLI Travelling Road-Show. And I have started drinking soy milk (blech! worse than formula) and eating tofu and eating my flax seed every morning for breakfast. My surgeon dismisses my concerns about Tamoxifen -- but also says he fully expects me to go out there and read all the primary research literature myself. My favorite survivor story so far is from a colleague of my husband -- her 95 year old grandmother had breast cancer in 1954, had a radical mastectomy, had uterine cancer in 1982, had a hysterectomy, and is now living in a nursing home, senile as can be. I'll take it! Kathy Dettwyler, who truly does appreciate all the warm thoughts and wishes that I know are beaming into College Station from all over the planet *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html