My Story

Hi all

I havent updated my blog in a while and thought I'd touch base. Chemo finished and I had my surgery (wide excision and sentinal node biopsy). Wow that hurt! The nuclea meds they inject you the day before the sentinal node biopsy was a killer. I believe the F word was used on many occations. They also managed to drip most of it on my gown and stomach so after 2 hours of xray mapping we had to do it all over again. Fun times in cancer paradise! The following day was surgery 8th march, everything went dandy, in a week I received results. Unfortunantly 3 out of 4 lymph nodes were involved and there were two marginal areas unclear of tumour  cells. three weeks later..here goes round two, re-excision to breast and axillary clearence.  Had a very painful drain tube experience where it was touching my nerve and shooting pain all on my chest back and shoulder, I was relieved when it was removed on day 5. Today (1 week later) I received results. 18 lymph nodes were removed in total and 5 were positive. The breast had a clear marignal area and I was told I dont need a mastectomy. Yaeeeee! Ooooooh happy days!!! I was so relieved, I hugged my surgeon (I think she got a fright) and told her I love her. My fionsay was in tears and couldnt stop all the way home (what a sweet heart). Its been a tough few months and we were feeling pretty grim. Now we can look forward to the future. Radiation next mid of april and tamoxifen. I keep singing..."o happy days!"! I cant help it. We bought a campervan so we have a holiday on wheels whenever we would like to escape and a boat as we live near the beach and both enjoy fishing.  As the 80's song goes...the only way is up!