Surgery did go well last week and my healing is on schedule. I worked my way off the Percocet (pain meds) over the weekend and only take it at night to sleep. The two drains in me are a pain in the butt. I hope to get at least one of them taken out on Thursday when I see the plastic surgeon. She'll take over caring for me as I heal from the surgery.
Yesterday, the pathology reports were in, so the General Surgeon moved up our appointment from Friday to Monday of this week to meet with Larry and me. The good news - the surgeon got all of the tumor and was glad she did an entire mastectomy on the one side. Although one suspicious section was not cancerous, it was a fibrous mass that was attached to the tumor. A lumpectomy of just the tumor would not have gotten that section. Whew, skirted that future risk.
The bad news is that the cancer has metastasized, and was found in 13 of 14 lymph nodes taken.
So we move on to the Oncologist and set the course of treatment going forward. The General Surgeon just got that appointment moved up to Wed of this week instead of next Tuesday. (I hope, I'm not being to pushy, but I figure with each new bit of information there's more discussion needed and why wait.)
More to come in the days ahead.
Cathy
we love you!!!
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