{"id":112,"date":"2015-05-09T21:07:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T04:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notwhatihadplanned.com\/?p=112"},"modified":"2015-05-09T21:08:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T04:08:51","slug":"getting-heavy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.notwhatihadplanned.com\/?p=112","title":{"rendered":"Getting Heavy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Things are getting a bit heavy. I have to determine what I\u2019m going to do for my surgery which will be 1 month or so after my last chemo (scheduled for Thursday, July 9th). I met with my new surgeon on Friday (I liked him) and on Tuesday I\u2019ll meet with a plastic surgeon. Decisions, decisions. It weighs heavily on me but I\u2019ve got my pros and cons list going and as I talk to more people (doctors, surgeons, fellow breast cancer survivors) my decision has been\u00a0swinging one way then the next. I think I am actually starting to settle down toward a decision but until I speak to the plastic surgeon and get a second opinion from another doctor out of state, it\u2019s hard to be 100% sure just yet.\u00a0 What I can say is the following: I now have about 3-4 good reasons for choosing one option over the other, and I may have identified my deal-breaker, that makes the decision and all of the discussions about percentage of reoccurrence possibility all seem to melt away.\u00a0 If that does continue to stick with me, then I think I\u2019m about 80% of the way to my decision. It\u2019s a big, heavy decision. It\u2019s going to take some settling into.<\/p>\n

On another \u201cheavy\u201d note I still seem to be slowly putting on a pound or so a week. Nearly had a fit at the surgeon\u2019s office when it rang me in at 146! No, I weigh 142 and as of last fall when I was healthy I ran a standard 140, and at the start of this whole cancer mess I was running 138. Yes, the surgeon\u2019s scale must have been off a bit! Either way, I don\u2019t really like it. I\u2019ve worked too hard going to the gym and now I can just see the numbers slowly creeping up. I was informed that on average, most women put on 10 lbs during chemo \u2013 news to me. I would like to hold under 145, closer to 142 if possible. It\u2019s a psychological thing for me. Thing is, with all of the drugs in my system my hormones and body is more than a little out of whack and there isn\u2019t too much I can do. I\u2019m working to eat healthier (the chip-o-holic hasn\u2019t been around since I kicked her out). No matter what happens I\u2019m staying on hydrated and active!! This is only temporary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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