Still havent started chemo
Well its now the 11th June, 2010 and I still havent started chemo. I was readmitted to hospital on the 21st May, 2010 with the infection. I had to have further surgery to get rid of the infection as the antibiotics were not working. So that was another set back, there was even talk that I might need a skin graft as the whole wound had to be left open to drain and they were not sure if it was going to close.
Fast track to this week. I saw the surgeon on Wednesday and he said that all looks good and that there would be no need for a skin graft and that I can look at starting chemo within 7 - 10 days. Community nurse came yesterday to change the dressings and informs me that I have another infection. WTF........ I only saw the surgon the day before and everything looked great. I didnt know that you could get an infection that quickly. So I am now on antibiotics once again and hope that all will be ok, once they start working, Not sure if I will start chemo as I was told while I am on antibiotics they will not start.
I just wish it would hurry up and start, I do but I dont, I just want to know what will happen over the course of the treatment.
Ohhhh....I suppose I should say what the results were. They took 19 lymph nodes and 4 were positive, there were two very large tumors and many small little ones througout. (this last bit of information was only given to me on Wednesday, which I am glas because I was doubting my decision if there were only two and thinking I could have got away with a lumpectomy). So they have decided that I will have chemo once every three weeks for 6 treatments and then radiotherapy every day for just over a month.
So I am still waiting, its was 6 weeks yesterday since my mastectomy, things have just been dragging on. Errrrrrr...... will update more at the end of the week, when I know where I go next.
