cancer in nodes.
morning all, I was diagnosed with invasive carcinoma 5 weeks ago, with apparent no spread to nodes, and the plans were for a double mastectomy with diep recon. They wanted to double check that the can...
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Hi @Mic80,
There's nothing worse than a change of plan. It takes enough to get your head around this thing in the first place.
My story is slightly different as I knew it was in the nodes to begin with. That's where I found the lump originally. The breast tumour was incredibly hard to find but find it we did.
The short version is I didn't want a mastectomy so went with lumpectomy and axillary clearance . Back for re excision for better margins the next week. There ended up being 5 out of 24 involved and the cancer had started to break out of the lymph nodes in to the surrounding tissue. I had 6 months chemo and 30 rounds of radiation.
Like we all are at the beginning I was petrified also. The fear of the unknown and having your life turned upside down for what seems like an eternity at the beginning is something that is hard to describe
.
Surprisingly once the ball gets rolling the time moves rather fast and before you know it you're done.
While chemo is no walk in the park it's definitely nowhere near the horror story our brains like to conjure up at the beginning. I got through quite ok worked, kept my hair with the cold cap, did all my usual things for most of it and had a lot of fun times along the way. Radiation was pretty straight forward and I had minimal issues. Just a pain in the butt driving there everyday :)
You'll be ok. Promise. Keep talking on here if you wish. Nobody else understands like someone that's been there.
All the best lovely.
xoxoxoxo
There's nothing worse than a change of plan. It takes enough to get your head around this thing in the first place.
My story is slightly different as I knew it was in the nodes to begin with. That's where I found the lump originally. The breast tumour was incredibly hard to find but find it we did.
The short version is I didn't want a mastectomy so went with lumpectomy and axillary clearance . Back for re excision for better margins the next week. There ended up being 5 out of 24 involved and the cancer had started to break out of the lymph nodes in to the surrounding tissue. I had 6 months chemo and 30 rounds of radiation.
Like we all are at the beginning I was petrified also. The fear of the unknown and having your life turned upside down for what seems like an eternity at the beginning is something that is hard to describe
.
Surprisingly once the ball gets rolling the time moves rather fast and before you know it you're done.
While chemo is no walk in the park it's definitely nowhere near the horror story our brains like to conjure up at the beginning. I got through quite ok worked, kept my hair with the cold cap, did all my usual things for most of it and had a lot of fun times along the way. Radiation was pretty straight forward and I had minimal issues. Just a pain in the butt driving there everyday :)
You'll be ok. Promise. Keep talking on here if you wish. Nobody else understands like someone that's been there.
All the best lovely.
xoxoxoxo