in response to Starshine... All my family lives by the beach but they used to live in TN and NC. I could go a little warmer like a beach too, in California or something. Reminds me of studying in Ireland. The coast are very similar.
I will have surgery in Dec. should have last month but cancelled. Have had 5 surgeries so time to just clean the slate at the best hospital in the South.
Family history- 4 great aunts, grandmother, sister at 41, other grandmother ovarian at 36-died-grandfather and uncles-prostate-we are one of those cancer families ya know? Have always know I would do this. First surgery at 30. I am afraid, but it is the right time and I won't have to get all the dye MRI's every six months and ultrasounds and mammograms. This came up 3 months after last one and was excited b/c had been stable for two years on left side, which you aim for, and then this was different and showed up on right. Have a great Oncology Surgeon who is well published and did two other surgeries. Had to get a diff plastic surgeon for reconstruction b/c I was uncomfortable with other. They gave me Head of Dept. The Best. Was a God thing. Thanks for thinking of me and any prayers. Have had a hard few years-flood-lost two pets- city messed up my perennial garden with storm water easement- father died in March and disinherited me- now this. I'm a survivor. Quit school, ran away but went to college eventually-had my own business, got sober in 1995, couple knee surgeries, bilateral carpal tunnel surgery, 5 spinal blocks, 5 breast lumpectomy/surgical biopsies, bulging disc. Lost my grandmother whom I loved, my best dog Abbey,Junior, Domino, Richie, my cat, my Aunt killed herself, and I am osteracized from my family. We are The Faulknerian metaphor- The Lost Eden - The Lost South. Thus, my desire for tranquility and peace. Thanks for caring. I almost let it make me numb, almost made me dead, but I'm still here for some purpose yet to be revealed.
Hope you find your beach!
Emilye
