After what my lovely Consultant called "successful surgery" which was wide local excision of Lobular plus Simple DCIS Cancer with full axillary excision of lymph nodes (with 23 out of 25 nodes removed being cancerous), I am facing an appointment with my Consultant Oncologist on Tuesday 7.3.26!
I have been told that because of the lymph nodes plus the type of cancer the hospital team are throwing everything at me and I am in for a long haul of treatment including chemotherapy, plus a tablet for 3 years and a different tablet for 10 years. After the chemotherapy I will face radiotherapy!
On top of all this my amazing daughter will be having her second child within the next two weeks and then in May we have a big family wedding!
It is all so overwhelming and I am just so very upset that my curveball of a diagnosis has really thrown what should be a very special, very happy time of this year into total chaos and upset!
I am not sleeping well, my surgery site around the lymph nodes area is uncomfortable with swelling and it is getting a bit too much for me to cope with sadly (my children don't know I feel like this - I don't want to upset them.
Sorry for rambling - I just needed to get things off my chest.
Gentle hugs everybody x
