Puppy Spa Day

Busy Monday as usual

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! I worked as usual. Lol

Enjoy your weekend! Puppy Spa Day will be closed Friday, May 28 through Monday, May 31 in observation of Memorial Day. We'll reopen Tuesday June 1st. All calls and messages will be returned at that time. Thank you and have a great weekend!

Happy Thursday! My last day before a little vacation time. Much needed! I'll be closed till Tuesday! Yay! I had a little fun with the Yorkie before I finished him. Haha!

Cancer update...I had my answer 2 days before Christmas when my surgeon called me, but my follow up was yesterday. I didn't want to tell anyone before Christmas.... I need a third surgery, which is scheduled for January 6th. The lab found a second cancer in the specimen she sent from the 2nd surgery, so she has to go back in and get that out. It's small and wouldn't have been found had she not gone back in for the clear margins, so in a way, it's a blessing to have had the 2nd surgery. We wouldn't have known about the 2nd cancer if she hadn't been in there again. It would've just sat in there and festered. This second cancer is Invasive Mucinous Carcinoma and is a stage 1A. It's a slow growing cancer, but now that it's been found, it's got to go! She said my DCIS has not spread to the lymph nodes or outside of the 2mm margins, so it's non-invasive and still Stage 0. The current plan is to heal from the January 6 surgery and start radiation. I'll see the radiation guy sometime soon and also someone who will fit me for bras, tank tops, bathing suits and whatever else I may want, to help me "feel" like I might still "look" normal on the outside. I heard February mentioned. Just hearing something like that makes me actually feel like these surgery days may actually be done and I may actually start to heal soon. This is the first time she's mentioned a time frame for any stage beyond a surgery. I don't want to get my hopes up, but I hope my feeling is right and soon I'll be moving forward with my healing...and my life. Sedentary doesn't sit well with me. I want to thank everyone helping us along the way again! Helping with meals, cleaning house, cleaning the shop, gift cards, and just being there as a shoulder for my husband Billy Keitz and I...true friends and family. We love and appreciate you all.

Merry Christmas to all of my friends, family, clients and pup's! Hopefully, you're all enjoying your holidays! We'll be closed till January 2nd (unless the doctor changes something). Thank you to all of you who thought of us throughout this trying time so far and have helped out. We appreciate you all! Merry Christmas to all!

Cancer Update: I'm home and very sore. I'm sleeping a lot, but getting around ok when I need to. Billy Keitz is taking good care of me. This surgery will tell u...s what the next step is. She took more out where the cancer was to try to get more clear margins and also 2 or 3 lymph nodes. She said when they do the investigation of the specimens she sent, they'll find out what we need to know. Hopefully this was the last surgery. This has been really tough for us, emotionally, physically, and financially. I know we'll get through this, but it sure does hurt to be down like this. We are so thankful for everyone helping out like they've been...right from the start. Uplifting gifts, donations and meals. My Dad Ronald Beck has been here for both my surgeries to help out as well. He drives so far to get her, hangs out with my husband since no one is allowed in, and leaves once I'm settled back at home. I think that's helping Billy out and not just me. Thank you Dad for always being my rock My clients have been amazingly supportive and understanding in this as well, and for that, I'm eternally grateful. I'm doing what I can to keep my business afloat. I got it through the 10 week Covid shutdown... I'll get it through this, too! I refuse to let my business go. I worked hard to get there and my Dad and I did too much work in there, to just let it go. It's not gonna happen! On a kinda funny note...this surgery sent me home with blue pee! That's funny to see! The dye she injected during surgery was blue and the body gets rid of it through my urine, so there ya go! Fun, and weird, cancer fact! Haha! I'll be updating as I can and will keep in touch with my clients. Together, we'll get through this. To my great support system...Thank you and I love you all!

Tomorrow morning we head out again for my second surgery for breast cancer. This has really hit me hard. I thought after the first surgery and some radiation, this would all be behind me. Now, 2 weeks after the first and still very sore, I'm headed back in. I love my surgeon! She's very thorough and explains things amazingly...even draws pictures for me on my paperwork. I love her and I'm confident in her knowledge and her reputation. I still have questions, which I will ask ...her tomorrow...like how did it get to be so big so fast? That's a burning question. I'll post tomorrow, or Friday, or whenever I'm feeling up to it, to let everyone know how surgery went. Then we'll wait for results...again. I'm really trying to stay positive. I really am. Sometimes I am and sometimes I'm still just so mad at this cancer crap, that it's hard to be positive. I want to thank everyone who has helped so far. Everyone has the same question..."how can I help?" A friend set this up and while I'm the farthest thing from the kind of person who ever asks for help, I wanted to share this. Please don't feel obligated to donate. I'm still not asking. I'm just sharing so the people asking what they can do, instead of me saying, "I don't know"... here's an idea for you.

So, here's the latest update, now that I've had a day to cool down and kind of deal with it. We had my 1 week follow up Thursday. We were absolutely sure they w...ere going to say something like, "healing well, back to work next week, radiation soon" Totally thought we'd be walking out of this appointment and moving forward. Good news was expected. No biggie, was how I was feeling about this diagnosis recently. Surgery to cut it out, heal, radiation, work...no biggie. Boy were we blindsided! Kicked in the gut. Knocked the wind right out of us! We weren't sure Billy would be able to be with me in this appointment, and we were ok with it. It wasn't going to be a bad one this time, right? We made it in the building together, made it up to the waiting room and got checked in, together, waited, together, thought we had it...he was going in, right? The nurse called my name, so we both stood up and she said..."I can only take her." Billy just said ok, and I went back the hall with the nurse. No problem, right? WRONG The surgeon came in and we talked. Talked about the surgery, about the results, about what's happening and what's hopefully not happening. That tiny, 9.8 mm (less than 1 cm), we caught it so early, grade 0, easy little problem we called cancer, was actually, 5.2 cm. A big problem. A game changer. A big change of plans. That easy problem, was now not so easy. She said surgery. She said surgery again. I have another surgery, and she already had it scheduled before coming in to talk to me... because it's important. It is. I know it is, but holy crap. It hit me. This really is serious. It's a big deal. It's not...a broken toe that'll be fixed and I'll move on. This will take some time. Some real time. Because now, I'm having surgery. Again. Surgery through the same surgical site to take out more to try to get more clear margins. Also, this time, the lymph nodes are being taken as well. She wants to biopsy them and see what their story is. If they're playing the cancer game, then I'll go back in for a third surgery... mastectomy for sure. The surgeon said this surgery is going to be harder to recover from. More painful. More painful because we're cutting into the armpit for the lymph nodes and more pain in the current incision because she's going back in there and it hasn't had the chance to heal yet. Surgery, will be Thursday. I'm beginning to hate Thursdays. Knowing how sore I STILL am now, 8 days after the first surgery, I can only imagine how bad it's going to be with the armpit incision! I'm right handed and it's my right side, so, it's definitely safe to say, I'm done grooming for the rest of the year. That was a hard blow. I didn't expect it to be this bad. I know. It could be worse. It could be so much worse. I'm not discrediting that at all. I'm just mad that it is this bad. I didn't plan for this. I'm a planner, but it didn't work the way I planned this time. I'm still trying to deal with that. I know I'll get through this. I can beat this. I've beat everything else I've been through thus far and I have no intentions of letting this beat me. I will win. But for now... I'm mad. I'm angry. I'm PISSED I'm also very emotional, so forgive me if I just don't feel like talking sometimes. Also, to my clients, please forgive me if I forget to text you or call you back. I'm so overwhelmed with all of this and I'm just trying to get through each day. I will get through and I will be fine. I just need a little patience right now. Please, if I don't get back to you, check back with me, because I may have forgotten. I'm sort of in a fog right now. My husband and I absolutely appreciate all that people are doing to help us. Emotional support is great! People are bringing us meals so that's one more thing we don't have to worry about once in a while. So many people are offering help, meals, gifts, time, and...shoulders...and we appreciate you.

My surgical oncologist signed her initials as an extra insurance of surgery on the right side I thought that was neat. Everyone was so good to me. The nurses,... surgeon, anesthesiologist, ultrasound and mammo technicians...everyone. Not one person made me feel any less than the most important person there. (Maybe because I was the only patient for the day...thanks to COVID protocol) They kept in touch with Billy Keitz with updates when they were available, and he and my Dad Ronald Beck got to hang out for the day. Thanks, Dad for doing that I've been chilling on the couch with my newest addition to my body...my favorite ice pack. Haha! Billy's keeping me hydrated and bundles me up with blankies when I get cold. He really is a wonderful caretaker. Thank you for being there for me. I can't imagine this journey with anyone else. I love you See more