Just Diagnosed

Hi Ladies!

I'm recovering well from surgery, seeing the surgeon Monday arvo and hopefully will get all the dressings and paraphenalia removed.

The pathology after surgery was interesting, lucky I only had two cancerous lymph glands so I'm at stage 2a. The tumors were found to be grade 3 after all, which makes sense for how quickly and how large they'd grown - 53mm (the mucinous carcinoma), 35mm and 20mm.  

The surgeon has prepared me for "the kitchen sink" as he put it - a longer chemo treatment plus radiation due to the size and grade of tumours, and my relative youth. However I don't see the oncologist until end of Jan.

Looking forward to getting a breast form now, I don't have my Berli pack with the soft form yet so bra stuffing ATM - hubby made a joke that it's been a long time since I've had to stuff, but actually I never did, I've had boobies forever! Found a wonderful mastectomy fitter down my way for when I'm OK to get the prothesis.

My sis had her lumpectomy and we were discharged from hospital the same day.  We're not sure about her pathology until she sees her surgeon next week, but the hospital were confident frm the sentinel node biopsy that her lymph nodes would be clear. 

Feeling pretty good now, and have ditched the harder painkillers for panadol.

Mich x