Sharry's blog

I spent yesterday feeling very sorry for myself. I'm half way through radiotherapy and my armpit is very very sore (ow ..... lots of sympathy please). I'm still going up to London every day to work and getting oh so tired. Ive had enough of being strong for everyone else and feel its time I concentrated on "me"! BUT ... every night I try to write at least one good thing in a little book before I go to sleep. Last night…

I find keeping a blog a good way to get my thoughts in order. The added bonus is that I get such lovely replies. Monday saw the consultant (10 days post mastectomy). Healing nicely but path lab results from op not back yet. He explained that I did not have breast cancer although the aftercare was the same. I had a soft tissue sarcoma (angiosarcoma) which happened to be in the breast. So most of the information relating…

Well its definite, its real, its cancer - there I've said it. Doctor confirmed on Thursday following CT Scan that I have soft tissue angiosarcoma in the blood vessels in the breast. The good news is that they've caught it early AND IT HASN'T SPREAD!!!!!!!!!! So through the powers of BUPA I have a mastectomy tomorrow and once that heals there will be radiotherapy. More good news is that I won't need chemo. So I'm pretty…

Well I had the core biopsy last night as well as a chest xray. The xray was clear. I should get the results of the biopsy by the end of the week, but the consultant is pretty sure it is a soft tissue sarcoma in the blood vessels. The good news is that is has been so difficult to get a confirmed diagnosis because it is low grade in the early stages. Apparently its unusual to see it in the early stages because either the…

Had a phone call from the specialist this morning. Still looking very like angiosarcoma, but inconclusive. Anywhere else he said they'd just remove it and look afterwards, but he doesn't want to remove the breast unless they are sure, so I'm going in for a surgical biopsy on Friday. I always imagined there would be lots of people around talking in hushed voices giving me this kind of news, not a phone call at work! Mind…