I'll be getting an early Christmas present

I saw my plastic surgeon yesterday and we scheduled my next surgery!  My skin expanders have done their job and I'm ready to have them taken out and have the final implants put in.  I'll be so happy to get these awkward hard expanders out!  My surgery date is Dec 2nd, hence the early Christmas present.  I really hope the implants will make me feel more like the old me.

Speaking of the old me, I started an 8 week bootcamp challenge on Monday.  So far I'm loving it, although I'm pretty sure there isn't a muscle in my body that isn't screaming at me! But it feels good to be working out again, and I feel like the "old" me.  The old out-of-shape me, but still the old me that could do more than just walk from my bed to the couch. I'm officially down 14 pounds from my highest chemo weight and only about 10lbs to go until I'm back down to my original "fat weight." It  boggles me how out of shape and weak I am, but we all have to start somewhere, right?

I see my oncologist tomorrow for a follow up to discuss the tamoxifen.  So far, so good- no real side effects, which is great.  And I was kind of known at the oncologist's office for my wacky shirts, so this came just in time (today)!

After I put it on I wondered if it is something I should have worn during chemo, when I actually had cancer, but I decided that it can mean that I beat cancer too.  I really want a shirt that says, "I made cancer my b!tch" but most of my kids can read, so...that's a no go.  It is true though!

I plan to go back and say hello to my chemo nurse Nikki.  I haven't seen her since my last chemo at the end of May.  It'll be great to say hello and not worry about her sticking me with a needle LOL