The operation

long lingering colds are the pits, once i get one they always hang on for weeks. Hope it starts to diminish soon so you can get set for christmas. When are you due back to work?

Not quite got to LJs eviction date yet, find out the plan on tuesday. 

Recovery snakes and ladders..i like it. Hopefully a little tamer than the rollercoaster but still full of ups and downs

Eviction date as I had guessed is 3rd December. LJ your time is up buddy.

CT clear elsewhere, so that's good and they seem to think that it's not affecting any other tissues and is standing alone, so only need to remove LJ and nothing else (I hope they are right.....  large clear margins are normally the key to PT control) Did mention clear margins, but got firmly told not necessary, as it's pretty mobile. My only doubt with that is my margins were very very small 1st time around, and here I am with a recurrence.......but hey I'm not a trained dr and their MDT team so what do i know ;-)

In in the afternoon, out by the evening and will go in via mastectomy scar, so on that note a better outcome than i was perhaps expecting......got to take every little glimmer of hope where you can on this journey

Hi been wondering how you were getting on today. 

Yove a date and a plan so hoping that’s eased worry a little for you. Another couple of hockey games to fit in beforehand too

lol Jacs, yes indeed. Means I only miss the last one of this half of the season......every cloud

In the best way possible in an impossible situation .... that’s a fairly good result and a plan . And more hockey to vent frustrations on

We are all here lovely lady

Gentle hugs

Lindsay

Well the day has arrived and I am sitting here at 6.00 am waiting to be taken to hospital for my mastectomy and if I could run away I would! How silly is that!  I am a bundle of nerves and just want to shout out Stop the world I want to get off! but of course I put on a stiff upper lip as we British do and will go through with this. Each time I have had a lumpectomy they have found more pre cancer cells and although my lymph nodes are clear I am still worried as to what they may find  Aargh!

Wishing you all the very best of luck, sending you lots of hugs and remember keep positive xx

Good luck , you will be fine that stiff upper lip seems to get us through! Fingers crossed for no nasty surprises and a speedy recovery. 

Thoughts and hugs xxx

We are all here with everything tightly crossed.

Gentle hugs and more positive thoughts

Leolady56

hi all, i'm hoping you lovely ladies can help me out here - i'm in dire need of some help/advice/pointers

had my last chemo on 1st nov, back in today for herceptin, first injection so hanging around for a couple of hours so i had an appointment with surgeon during waiting time.

right from first diagnosis i'd been told i'd get a lumpectomy - 2 tumours in bottom of boob and lymph nodes to go but the 2 were close together. after half way scans saw oncologist who was happy with progress and said def lumpectomy and at final ultra sound doc said def lumpectomy - they were both under a cm after the chemo

so i went to appointment expecting to get a date and told what to expect and what to do etc

surgeon poked and prodded saying he was checking amount of tissue to see how it would look after chunk removed and it was fine, plenty there - so far so good

then we sat down and he ran through options - my first hiccup

1. a horizontal incision, they heave out the bad tissue and sew me up. chance of infection and boob would look weird (top full, bottom empty) followed by radiotherapy

2. a horizontal and vertical incision, heave out the bad tissue, rearrange the good stuff and sew me up. very large chance of infection but boob would look a little better followed by radiotherapy

3. mascectomy

brain went a bit wobbly here, asked bout chance of infection with mascetcomy - he avoided question, would that also mean radiotherapy  - another avoidance

brain completely short circuited here and i asked if i had to decide right away - he looked really pissed and the clinical nurse said no, she could phone me tomorrow morning for an answer - tomorrow!

at this point the crabby surgeon decided he needed to know my cancer's pathology - nurse said i was grade 3, i'm grade 2 but he checked and was surprised it's also non-invasive.

seriously - shouldn't he have known this before offering me surgical options!  not really a question i'm just making myself mad, sorry

anyway, what questions should i be asking tomorrow? my chemo brain is in full flow at min. i know i should have asked bout reoccurance chances but i didn't.

and option 1 is out cause it just sounds barbaric

i just realised there was no mention of possible reconstruction for any of the options - i'm a chubber so i'v got enuf skin.

he really hammered the chances of infection for the first 2 options - is this really what i should base my decision on? and he didn't say what they were for masectomy.  he would operate for first options but i'd go to different hospital if i choose mascetcomy

i'v been through this forum many times, i know there's stuff i should ask but i can't for the life of me remember anything

and on top of that the nurses made me stay longer cause my last obs were a mess, bp was up and pulse was doing the tango. explained the prob so they gave me half an hour to get it under control or else - luckily i did lol

any help will be hugged close - which is a good idea, going to chase down those furballs and hug my cats