My fiance was able to get time off work to attend my pre-op assesment with me; this time it was back at my local hospital so only about 15 mins away. From memory we were only there for a couple of hours over all...
First they took my weight, height, blood pressure and BMI. Next I sat down with a nurse to go through a 16 page form. She also gave me lots of leaflets to take away and read about anaesthetics, deep vein…
I have a significant family history, mum was diagnosed with Breast Cancer aged 36 got ovarian cancer 2 years later and eventually died aged 44 from secondary ovarian cancer. The youngest of my aunties on her side to die did so at 28. The oldest was I think in her late forties. My closest cousin on that side died at 40 (her mum was the one that died at 28) and so it goes on through the rest of the family…
We'd actually been intending to start a family this year and in our ideal world I would have been about 2-3 months pregnant when we got married in April. Just was well I wasn't with the discovery of the breast cancer in Februrary! Anyhow, this meant that retaining fertility throughout my treatment was a consideration hence my BCN arranging an appointment for me to meet with a 'consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist…
On D-Day my breast care nurse (BCN) suggested that I e-mail her a list of questions over the weekend so that we could go through those and information about the upcoming surgery at our next appointment which she scheduled for 6th April 2010.
So back to the specialist centre I went, once again with my fiance who wants to be part of everything at the moment (for which I am very grateful) :) My list was rather long…
Once again my fiance went with me to my appointment. This time it was at the specialist centre and we were taken into a nice little room with sofas. I should have twigged something was up when the breast care nurse (BCN) asked if I wanted them to record the session for me (which I said yes to).
My mind was sitting in some isolated place of calm not really taking in the impact of what was being said to me - a very…
