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From Spoons:

Today I came home from the hospital. Yay! I am looking forward to many things, like the fact that no one is going to try to draw my blood at 4:40 tomorrow morning, and also seeing more of our Brooklyn friends.

I got the pathology report from my surgery, and it's all good news. The offending lymph node has been removed. They also removed a bunch of other lymph nodes from that area, and all these tested negative. My surgeon was very pleased with the report, and we are too. In the future, I will still have scans occasionally, but the chances that I'll need any further treatment are very low.

From here, mostly I am working on recovering from the surgery itself. Some things, like no heavy lifting, are not too surprising. My surgeon is also really cautious about re-introducing fats into my diet (because of a connection between fat digestion and lymph production), so I'll be eating less than 5 grams of fat per day for the next two weeks. Yay.