Cathy continues to amaze me.  It hasn't been a week since her surgery and she's weened herself off the Percocet.  I don't think she made this move because the pain had decreased at all.  Instead, I think she was tired of being in a fog all day from taking Percocet and Valium.  She's continuing on the Valium because some of the muscle spasms are still pretty intense.  Of her four drains, only one is producing a consistently large amount of fluid.  Another produces a medium amount and the other two yield barely enough to measure.  Hopefully, two of those will be removed today when we see Dr. Butterfield.

Yesterday we apparently missed an appointment with Dr. Manders that we didn't know we had.  There must have been some sort of mix up with the nurses and the discharge papers and who was going to call whom.  Dr. Manders called Cathy yesterday to find out how she was doing and give her the pathology results.  She said that the pathologists couldn't find any traces of cancer in the tissue that was sent out.  Dr. Manders referred to this state as a "complete pathological response."  Those are three pretty sweet words.