Nervous about next step
Hi everyone, I was diagnosed on 13th April with grade 3 invasive breast cancer, had a Mastectomy and lymph node removal/biopsy on the 9th May, on the 25th May I was told that they seem to of got the c...
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Hi @Schwen glad you didn't have to spend the night in ICU and you were given the option to do it under local. It was also my first procedure done under local also, so I can understand how weird it must've been, haha. The pain will be like that for a couple of days or so but I found that putting an icepack on it helped with the bruising and swelling. First Chemo session will always be scary for most, if not all people who have to do it so it's perfectly understandable. I assume they have advised what treatment you are doing and for how long? Have they given you the option of the cooling cap?
Niki
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Niki
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