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Blackduck
8 years agoMember
Here I go again.
I am 25 months post mastectomy, 4 rounds of TC chemo, no radiation, was then put on Exemestane which apparently is the rolls Royce of Tamoxifen and a Zoladex injection every 28 days. First diagnosed i...
Unicornkisses
8 years agoMember
So sorry to hear you are back there again @blackduck. What a shit of a thing!
Such a hard decision to make.
I tried a lumpectomy on my one breast affected, but pathology after surgery meant chemo, mastectomy and radiation.
I would rather have had a mastectomy the first time in hindsight but no one could see the extent of my cancer from the scans.
If anything goes wrong with my second breast though, it comes off. I am not mucking around again. And yet I am pleased I didn't go with my first instinct to take them both off the first time, and am quite fond of it now, so that would be a gut renching decision.
I hope you can find a decision that you are comfortable with, so many things to consider with so little to guide you.
Such a hard decision to make.
I tried a lumpectomy on my one breast affected, but pathology after surgery meant chemo, mastectomy and radiation.
I would rather have had a mastectomy the first time in hindsight but no one could see the extent of my cancer from the scans.
If anything goes wrong with my second breast though, it comes off. I am not mucking around again. And yet I am pleased I didn't go with my first instinct to take them both off the first time, and am quite fond of it now, so that would be a gut renching decision.
I hope you can find a decision that you are comfortable with, so many things to consider with so little to guide you.