My wife has just had her first post lumpectomy oncology consultation by telephone. No one has physically examined her breast since surgery, due to COVID hospital distancing.
Six weeks have elapsed since surgery and she has been told that she is on the RT list for treatment, hopefully in about 3 weeks time. She is a little concerned about the colour of her breast. The whole lower half of her breast from just above the nipple stands out as being quite pink. The contrast is very obvious because she is really light-skinned. She doesn't tan. There are no other issues with her breast. The single scar has healed well, with a band of hard scar tissue underneath. She has virtually no discomfort other than a slight sensitivity around the nipple/areolar area, and the areolar area is slightly swollen. Her breast is not hot. The surgery was in the lower outer quadrant of her left breast, and the surgeon performed some internal reconstruction on that side, in order to avoid an indentation. The pinkiness spreads uniformly across both lower quadrants.
