NEWLY DIAGNOSED

Hi Margie. Hopefully your surgery is over, and has gone well.

I, too am a nurse, and a midwife. You've had some great responses to your post. We all have different treatme t paths and responses. Don't let anyone expect you to know about bc because you're a nusre. Unless you've worked in oncology it's a foreign language.

You won't know the stage until the surgical pathology results are in. My initial mammogram said 35mm, USS the same day said 15mm. Make sense of that. I had chemo first, then surgery and radiotherapy, so I'll never know exactly what stage I was. My only symptom was axillary discomfort, then found enlarged node, so knew that I was node positive from the start, and would be having an axilary clearance. 

Take care, Lyn