Having met with both my breast surgeon and oncologist this week, I now have a good (ish) understanding of what's going on.
First up, there were no active cancer cells in my breast by the time I had surgery, all that was left was scar tissue. Even...
I know the MDT meeting was Thursday lunchtime and a strong chance they would be discussing my results. My impatience kicked in at 4pm when I sent a polite enquiring text to the oncologist. She rang almost immediately, promising a proper a...
Well, dare I say it, that wasn't so bad. In fact I feel a bit of a fraud as I am sure I could easily have worked this week.
Within 24hours of surgery I was up and about, not feeling tired or sick or groggy and just using paracetamol to keep the p...
I felt amazingly relaxed this morning as I hung around at home passing time until I had to leave for the hospital as I was scheduled into afternoon surgery. My first visit of the day was to the breast clinic, to drop in a magseed - basically a ...
With chemo complete I now move onto the next stage, 12 cycles of Phesgo, given by subcutaneous (I had to look that up in Mr Google) injection. Isn't it funny, in former times I'd have said I had to look it up in the dictionary, now I re...
