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I just got back from bugging Kris for 2 hours - an updateish

 

double mastectomy doodle from this artist

Welp. I just saw Kris, and let me tell you that lady is absolutely dazzling. I mean she is really doing great. It's actually confusing, but in the best way that a person can be confused?

I think she will pop on here to write about her experience when she's physically able, so I won't go into detail about that here. What I will say is that one of the following things was NOT a topic of conversation during our visit:

1. body farms
2. how awesome her surgeon is
3. how she's in a lot of pain (to be expected after undergoing a double mastectomy)
4. blue poop

Can you guess which? If your answer is #1, you are dead wrong (pun intended). The answer is #3. She is experiencing virtually no pain, which is WILD. And awesome. We spent a good couple of minutes just staring at each other at the weirdness of that. 

Kris will go in for a follow up appointment on June 21st which is when she will find out the results of the tests they are currently doing on the tumors to determine if they need further testing to determine if she will need chemo to determine - just kidding. 

She did share with me two potentially great pieces of news which can be summed up by the following statements: size DOES matter, and LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION.

Let me explain. Kris learned at the hospital that, surprisingly, if the tumors are less than 6 mm around, there will be no need to send them in for an oncopanel - the test which decides whether or not chemo is needed. It just... Won't be needed! So put all of your thoughts out there that they are members of the itty bitty tumor committee so that chemo can be swept off the table here and now (and by now I mean June 21st).

Secondly, the lymph nodes show no spread in the (largely accurate) preliminary tests, making the need for radiation likely obsolete. Another big WOOHOO! 

Again both of the above are not written in stone, but they both bring a glimmer of hope that the stage of fighting cancer could be over, and that the next stage of rehab/recovery can move forward without inhibition. 

Either way, we need to find this lady a superhero name, STAT! The state of the world depends on it!