Steph, my sleep has been really rough lately so I don't really want to take something that will make me sleep all day or most of the day and then stay up all night. So I'll try the aspirin before the antibiotic (I need to go do that now) and then if it doesn't help I'll try the Benadryl tomorrow. We don't have Benadryl otherwise I'd try that tonight.

Maybe Benadryl at bedtime (if you get some) will be enough to help with the flushing. I hope the aspirin helps!

Oh, no Cass! I'm so sorry!

Sorry about that Cass. Hopefully this case will be mild and not passed on to others.

{{{Cass}}}

~ma for a mild case and a quick recovery.

My surgical recovery is coming along normally, i.e. more slowly than I'd like. I go back to work next week, but since I'm 100% WFH hopefully that won't be too bad. They did discover from the pathology report on the tissue that was removed that I have some precancerous markers, which I'm trying not to freak out about too much. At this point this will probably just mean extra screenings beyond an annual mammogram, though the surgeon did mention tamoxifen therapy as a potential option. I'm scheduled to meet with someone at the breast clinic for counseling on the risks and my options for managing them the same day I go in for my next post-op appointment in about a month.

They did discover from the pathology report on the tissue that was removed that I have some precancerous markers, which I'm trying not to freak out about too much.

Let me just say that "precancerous" is where you want to catch these things.

If that's where you are, you're going to be fine.

Wishing you quick healing and no further complications.

Let me just say that "precancerous" is where you want to catch these things.

If that's where you are, you're going to be fine.

Thanks, David--in my head, I know that, at least with the exception of that part of my head that drives my anxiety. I'm getting better at keeping the anxiety from seizing the wheel, but it does still try sometimes.

Much healing~ma, Susan. And if there is anything to be found, as David said, precancerous is the best time to find it.

I do expect this Covid having and recovery will be much easier.

I just really, really was starting to feel like I'd started kicking long Covid out the door, so the possibility reality of being Covid+ is stressful because what if the long Covid comes back? Without much sciencing to read up on, I don't know what to expect long-term.

Thank you all for the good wishes.

I'm getting better at keeping the anxiety from seizing the wheel

This is good.

Susan, I know finding out there are pre cancerous markers is scary but you now have really important health information that you didn't have before and you can be proactive about this and take care of things while it's still precancerous.

So far the aspirin seems to be working on the flushing side effects.

Well, the good-job-news~ma worked like a charm, y'all. I'm moving to a new position under my favorite manager, for more money, and with the chance to learn a bunch of cool things. And I didn't have to go through the interview process for it—my future manage just went to HR and said, "We need her on our team. Please make it happen." Yay!