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Newly diagnosed, waiting for sugery and scared
Hi, my name is Libby and I'm 41 and diagnosed with ILC and DCIS in my right breast early November...been prodded, poked, squeezed, pushed for the last few weeks and by the sounds of it a lot more to ...
Thanks Donna and Rita..I appreciate your responses and I have already found this site to be great...I've already started making a list of useful tips just in case I go through similiar treatments...so thank you everyone who is putting those on the site.
I have so many questions that I want to ask...and find that although my specialist was helpful I now don't see her until the morning of the sugery which is three weeks away. On the morning of the sugery I have to have dye injected around the tumour so they can mark which nodes it goes to...I have been told that no local anesthetic is given for this procedure and it is quite uncomfortable...any advice for this one ladies...I get extremely anxious about needles and normally take rescue remedy jubes but will be fasting for sugery so won't be able to. I also have to have a wired guided lumpectomy in my other breast..I have a fibroadenoma and another lump which they didn't biopsy but have decided to remove just to be safe. Has anyone had one of these and please tell me they give me a local for that one.
Thank you in advance
Libby :-)