Deb Crowe Schlosser Beats Cancer

Surgery is done. The surgery lasted about 5 hours long & by the doctors reports went really well. All of the lymph nodes under my left arm & some on that side of the chest were removed as well as Lefty. My next check up isn’t until this Friday, so I will be staying right where I am in this pillow pile up in my sister’s guest room until it doesn’t hurt so much. Houston is cold, cold, where the temperature outside right now is 26. There is a fire in the fireplace and I’ve got fuzzy socks, so I’m as good as I can be.

I’m in the “OUCH!!!!!!” phase of recovery. Of course they’ve given me meds for the pain, but for those that know me well, I don’t like to take lots of pharmaceuticals. That said, Steve is keeping me on a pretty tight regimen that the Dr’s advised. I’ve taken the stronger pain med the last 2 nights to help with sleep but this has also provided vivid dreams of me working & according to Steve I’m very vocal while sleeping, lots to say. Yesterday I woke up without making the copies of whatever bookkeeping reports I was working on in my dream & I was out-of-sorts for a bit. This is the weird, unexpected part of this.

During surgery, they also removed the port that was on the right side of my chest. I feel like I have painful tiny T-Rex arms & can’t do much at all. Brushing my teeth is messy. It has been hard to hold my phone, so I haven’t been responding to your wonderful check-ins like I would prefer, or calling y’all back like I promised. I’m typing right now but only in small increments. Give me a few more days before you expect to hear from me.

Chef Stacy has been making us the MOST excellent food. Last night was a pot roast that had been coated in a Kale/Cashew pesto. The night before was a shredded chicken chili with cornbread. Elevated comfort food! We are getting so spoiled with this amazing sustenance and it’s going to be hard to go back to Moe’s salad bar & my sub-par cooking.

OK – that’s enough typing for now. T-Rex arms are not wanting to cooperate. But they do open wide for a big virtual hug to you all. I hope you are all safe & cozy. Much love from me.