This time I'm late with my monthly blog so hopefully that means there will be two in October.

Well, the news is that I will be having hip replacement surgery on October the 16th. This is on the same leg that they put a rod back in 2013 when they found the breast cancer had spread to the bones. The reason for the surgery is that the "cap" that joins the femur with the hip dissolved due to mbc and the rod they put is sticking into the hip bone causing unbelievable pain. The orthopedic surgeon labels this high risk surgery but I decided to go with it anyway because regardless of how much longer I get to live I don't want to be in constant pain.

I read an article of a 72 year old woman with metastatic disease who went through the same procedure even though her doctors told her it wasn't worth it for the time she had left to live. But she went ahead with it and lived 2 more years after the surgery.

All I want I to be pain free and to attend my daughter's law school graduation in December. I'll be praying for God to take the doctor's hand and for me to come out victorious through this.

Aurora