Blue

My boob was blue for about a year.


(I've decided that this chronicle of mine is going to have to be told out of order.  It just feels right.)


After the lump was removed and the Big C handed down, I had to have a second surgery to, to put it not-so-delicately, basically scrape around where the tumor was to ensure that any cancerous cells were removed.  During the surgery they also extracted lymph nodes from my left armpit to check to see if the cancer had spread.  In order to find the lymph nodes (or the cancer.  I don't remember), I was injected with a blue dye.


I had to pee shortly after I came to in the recovery room.  My pee was blue.  I'm talking like blue raspberry Kool-Aid blue.  (Is there a blue raspberry Kool-Aid?)  I started cracking up, I found it hilarious.  (For those of you who have never undergone surgery, you wake up high.  And everything is funny.)  The blue diminished over the next several pees, going from blue raspberry Kool-Aid to Windex to a sort of green and then finally back to normal.


Then there was blue poop.


Bright blue poop.  Amazing.  I was still a little high, so I made everyone in the house look at it before I flushed.  (They obliged.  More, I think, out of morbid curiosity than out of just simply trying to please me.)


My armpit and boob were both dyed blue from the injection.  The dye left my armpit relatively quickly, but it just would not leave my boob.  Every time I saw my doctor he'd say, "It's still blue! That's amazing, I've never had a patient have it last this long!"


It's ok.  Blue is my favorite color.