Update Update !!! Read all about it !

I'm alive !!! Haha.. surgery went really well and I'm doing great, the ladies tell me I look good and apart from the pain I'm flying, well, y'know.... more later I just wanted to let ye know that I'm fine, love love love to one and all xxxxxx
Ps that's my pious Caravaggio face..

Glory be to eyebrows and the eyelashes and the hair on my head, Amen !

Hello my lovelies !
Well it's been a while since my last update so I'll fill you in really quick...I finished my last dose of chemo on Nov 20th and have been recovering ever since. It's wonderful to put that behind me and to know that I will never again feel that noxious nausea that made me feel sick to my toes. I wake up feeling better every day as it drains from my body and my immune system recovers.
My gifted acupuncturist Caylie See tells me my pulses improve greatly with each passing week since the chemo ended and that she can hear all of my organ pulses waking up, meaning I am getting stronger in body, mind and spirit.
To my amazement the hair on my head and face started growing back in in the middle of the toughest chemo. I chalk it down to Chinese herbs and my amazing protocol of supplements. I have an almost full head of  soft chicken fluff hair now and will be able to discard the cancer hat very soon and rock the Sinead for a bit, happy days !
The next part of treatment is surgery, which is happening tomorrow ! It'll be a total skin sparing bilateral mastectomy, meaning they'll remove all the breast tissue and leave the skin, with reconstruction later. I am blessed to have an incredible team of  UCSF surgeons giving me the best care I could possibly get, I am thrilled that I decided to do it here in the States and at this hospital, where the level of care is impressive.
Am I worried about the surgery ? Yeah a teeny bit, about as much as anyone would worry about being under anesthesia for 5 hours, but I trust my two surgeons and I trust in my own healing process and that makes it a lot easier.
It's been a long road so far dealing with all of this and at times it's been incredibly hard to go it alone, but strange as it sounds I think that this was meant to be just as it is to teach me about my own strength and to open me up even more to love and to love more. I have done some work to heal the emotional wounds that were part of the reason I got this in the first place and because of that I am ready to let go of old pains and have the cancer physically removed from my body and spirit. So yes I feel ready for it and I know that they will get every last bit of cancer out of my body.
For the last few days I have felt like I've been held in a cocoon of love by all of you, really. I have received so many emails and calls and texts wishing me well and letting me know that I am in your thoughts. I feel almost full to bursting with love and support ! Thank you for all your kind thoughts, love and well wishes, I can feel it very clearly, warming my heart, it gives me so much strength, I feel like superwoman !
Last but not least I want to thank Sean and Brenda Hurley and all of the members of the 31st Cadet class, the extended Hurley family and all of Pat and Milly's dear dear friends who gave so generously to my fundraiser to help me out at this time, your response has overwhelmed me and I cannot thank you enough for your kindness and generosity, it is such an enormous help. Cancer is a terrible thing, but the love, support and humanity you see and feel when you're in it makes it more than tolerable, it makes it magical. You have given me the gift of time to heal in peace and I wish you many blessings in return for your kindness.

Well folks, one must go into prepare mode for tomorrow's big day ! My sister Maeve is with me so she will update my blog post surgery when I'm in the clear and all is well, so sign up for updates if you want to get that email, it'll save her responding to multiple people. Surgery starts around noon SF time tomorrow, (8pm Irish time) and will be 5/6 hours long. So send healing love instead of worry and all will be well.
I am sending you all a magical ball of love, light and gratitude ! See you on the other side xxxxxxxx