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New Diagnosis
Hi I am Mandy and I was given the diagnosis of Breast Cancer yesterday afternoon. I am 44 and have two children 17 and 13.
The lump was found on routine mammogram and confirmed as Invasive Ductal ...
I too am a nurse - worked a lot with breast ca surgery in NSW, tram flaps, expanders, mastectomies - and now in ICU see the exceptions rather than the norm. It does make it worse - especially as a lot of people assume you'll know all there is to know....but you don't...but that nurse mind just keeps ticking and planning if it's A to then I can do so and so, or if it's B such and such. The only benefit I have so far found is the ability to look at reliable information in the net....and that isn't even a comfort having seen my USS. Hugs and love to you. Xx