I am feeling your pain. I was diagnosed mid October and had lumpectomy mid December. I know not as long as you, but all waiting is horrible.
It is an agonising wait where you have nothing but time to think about it, but the surgeons are run off their feet and then on leave over Christmas.
They found something in my lung in the pet scan so I had to have a lung biopsy prior to surgery (was originally booked in for surgery mid November but they wanted the biopsy first
so surgery was cancelled - that felt devastating, but we do get through). It wasn’t lung mets thank goodness. I am now waiting on chemo -
you need to heal prior to starting. It is teaching me patience (something I am not good at), since we seem to be always waiting for something.
It has been 2.5 weeks since surgery and I am now taking off my own dressing since I won’t see the surgeon for another week and the itch under the tape is nearly unbearable. Christmas shutdown is the pits. It is certainly a rocky road.
My surgeon kept on telling me that the time wouldn’t make much of a difference since it had already been in there for a while (that wasn’t what my head was telling me though 😂). They do this a lot and know what they are doing so we just have to trust them. I am through the private sector. I was going to have to wait until mid January when the surgeon returned but they managed to squeeze me in on the last surgery day prior to Christmas. I am so
glad itat they did and that it is out of me, but the timing is really bad and I am just winging it really. I’m not sure that I should be taking off my own dressing but don’t want to leave it on.
As Arpie said I did a lot of prep cooking in that time and tried to get myself as fit as possible prior to surgery. Oh and yoga, that is great. Also, speak to your breast care nurse, they can really help mentally and by contacting your surgeon.
Have you had a Pet scan yet?
I truly hope you get in soon, the wait is truly awful. xx