Hi everyone, good to be back. I was starting to get withdrawal symptoms as have not been on for a few days.
I had my results last thursday and they were good and bad! The cancer is stage three (which I half knew anyway) but the sentinel nodes were clear, so hopefully chemo can start soon. I was tod there was Infiltrating ductal carcinoma with associated HNG grade DCIS (not sure what that means, despite going on to internet) and lymphatic permeation, vascular invasion. (Is that the same thing?)
My surgeon was great and explained everything to me as best he could, but quite frankly most of it went straight over my head and he could have just been saying blah, blah, blah the amount I took in.
I realise vascular invasion means that it was, or is, in my bloodstream, but not sure how this will impact on my long term prognosis. I am eagerly awaiting my chemo start date now as I know that is meant to zap any stray cells etc.
Still in quite a bit of pain from the mastectomy and have seroma that needs to be drained. I also know chemo won't start until all healed and no more seroma's. I thought I would be feeling a lot more mobile by now and it's driving me crazy. Still pottering around doing stuff I am probably not supposed to as my daughter thinks if i can walk then I can do housework!!
Hope everyone on here is doing as well as they can and hope to hear from my buddies soon. Take care, love and hugs. Debbie. xx
