Hello

I am feeling rather negative today.  I was diagnosed with DCIS in July and had surgery which went very well, no pain and recovered well.  The results took 6 weeks to come through and I went to the appointment expecting to discuss radiotherapy only to be told that they had not manged to get a sufficient margin, which was bad enough, be even worse, I have stage 3 invasive ductal cancer which was not picked up by the biopsy.  I did not know that it was possible for something like that not to be picked up, so it was quite a shock.  I have recently had more surgery to try and get a wider margin and a lymph note biopsy.  I have now got to wait weeks and weeks to find out the results, and on bad days, I think that it is very unlikely that the cancer has not spread and that they still will not have managed to get a sufficient margin.  On the plus side, the staff in the hospital were fantastic, I could not fault anything about my overnight stay.  There is no pain and I am recovering well, but the problem is that I am signed off from work for 2 weeks so i have time to dwell on the situation.  I appreciate that there are people in a much worse position than me, but I cannot help feeling a bit despondent at times.