Post lumpectomy healing and good news

Great news for you and enjoy your holiday.I have my opp,(same as yours with same outcome they expect)next week.

your e.mail was inspiring for me,thanks for posting.x

Venicelagoon

I found it all very stressful at the appointment today. Paperwork done but found the scan very uncomfy. Sore shoulders and because I was naked on top half I got very cold and shivery and struggled to stop shaking. They cranked the heat up and we managed the breath hold but because of the shaking I've another appointment on Fri to go and get scan done. Was sent home with links to breathing exercises. Its made me feel very low not achieving this. First radiotherapy pencilled in for 27th but this may change. More waiting. Dont normally suffer with scanxiety but always a first. Feel exhausted now xx

Good luck , let me know how it goes. X

I had a call from the oncologist this morning and we had a video consultation which worked well. He said I could have had my 5 days radiotherapy before my holiday but said it would be fine to do it after. 
He advised that women with larger breasts are more likely to have skin side effects as women here have noted.

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I find it a bit of a pretence to say I'm fine with Radiotherapy to husband and friends, who seem to concentrate, of all things on the travelling part to the hospital. Why this should be I don't know. That's the easy bit. The hard bit is when you're on the bed struggling to put an arm in the way they want you to put an arm. Had a big argument with my husband who flounced off. Stepdaughter then happened to come round and saw how angry, tearful and upset I was, to the extent that I wished to leave him. I knew he would blame me and he did. People just do not appreciate the emotional effects of all this. Husband and I had another chat, he felt the side of my breast which was puffy compared with the other side and can tell my arm is in pain, so insisted I see the Breast Cancer Nurse again. She said Physio would give me some treatment individually targeted at my needs. I can't get a jumper off without difficulty due to limited movement. She told me that if the exercises don't work you need the physio because if you leave it the muscles - eg shoulders, seize up very quickly so later on you really are stuck. I didn't find the radiotherapy planning appt comfortable at all, due to probs in the arm, not on the side of the breast needing the radio. Do practise the deep breathing using the link.

Even though we explain to others how it is, I think its hard for them to realise just how stressful and anxious it is. I'm not excusing the behaviour but unless you've been through it, you just don't get it. Yes a CT scan is fine and not an issue, its the contortions they make you do and the breathing as well. I wanted it to be over and was so downhearted that they wanted me to return tomorrow. After lying there yesterday,  I've come away with sore shoulders blade and back of ribs which were already achy so going to suggest just one arm up. I've been practising my breathing so will try again tomorrow.

Hope your physio goes ok, its hard when you've not got your mobility back. Keep going ... one day at a time (but these feel long days at present!) Xx

Bras reduced in Debenhams.  I bought these even though I didn't have mastectomy as they were softest inside bras I could find for radiotherapy 

www.debenhams.com/search

Thanks Carol , just got the last one in my size (big)