A big scare!

Well my life here in Kalispell has taken shape. I have found a small one bedroom house. It is in a great older neighborhood and it has a beautiful view of the mountains. I am finally all moved in. I have stripped wallpaper out of the bathroom and the kitchen that was like a 100 years old. Gross and dingy from smokers and just old age. The place not only looks better but smells better.

I am still working at Tele Tech, and that job that I thought was temporary, has become more permanent than I thought it would. I am now involved in a softball team with work through Flathead Recreation and I have joined a team for the Relay for Life to help fight cancer. I may not like the work so much but I am getting involved in my new community through them and I do like that. They really are a great company to work for.

I recently had a scare. I have been cancer free and pretty much back to my normal life, if that's what you call it, since Dec. of 2009. I started getting some tender pain in my breast that had the lumpectomy. It increased as the days went by. I was to a stage 8 out of 10 in pain and I was scared to death what that might mean. My hand was numb and the back of my shoulder was in pain. I ended up scheduling an appt with the surgeon here in Kalispell. A week and a half before that I had gotten a bladder infection. I get them all the time and now treat them myself. I started myself on the antibiotic and by the time I saw the doc wasn't in near the pain I had been. She examined me and and gave me an ultrasound and determined that I had an infection in my breast due to the bladder infection. It made its way up and decided to land in my boob. This is where the fluid started building up and got infected. She sent me to see the radiologist in the hospital who put a needle in my NOT NUMBED boob, got a sample of the fluid, drained the remaining fluid and grew the culture. Come to find out 4 days later that the antibiotics that I had taken for my bladder infection also cured my boob infection.

Hmmm.....I wonder how much that cost me?