Any advice????? :)
Mastectomy operation over and drains out and am back home..... so nice to be around your loved ones again.
Op was ok, nothing like I thought it would be. Am keeping up with my exercises and have quite a lot of movement back in my arm, just my shoulder is still a bit stiff. No pain at all at any time throughout the op! Was sooooo surprised. If arm aches, just take Paracetamol and it sorts it out..
Am back at the hospital…
Am going into hospital tomorrow to have my mastectomy op on Monday. Am understandably nervous, but REALLY REALLY JUST WANT TO GET IT OVER WITH AND GET ON WITH MY LIFE :)
Went to see the Breast Cancer nurse yesterday and was told that the MDT had decided a mastectomy would be better for me than a lumpectomy as the cancer is a fast growing one and if they did a lumpectomy they would have to take a lot of surrounding tissue away and then there would still not be any guarantee that they got all the cancer and that would mean they may have to operate again etc.
Cried and cried... some days…
It's official. Went to the hospital today for the results of my biopsies I had done. Dr told me I have breast cancer. They found a nodule on my breast too, but that's benign. Dr told me that as the nodule was benign, they do not need to do a mastectomy, they can do a lumpetcomy (unless I wish to have a mastectomy). Asked the Dr a few questions, then went to chat with a Breast Nurse. She gave me loads of info about…
