Time to process
Hi All, my intro post. Such a roller coaster of emotions and processing suddenly going from perfectly healthy to not! I had a Diagnosis 22/12/23 IDC with 2.9cm tumor and lymphnode involvement from B...
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So 17 days after surgery. Still sore and tired but slowly recovering ok I think, although patience is a challenge.
Summary of results of bcs (partial mascectomy) include removal of 3.2cm tumour (Left outer quadrent) and a dcis also found and removed during surgery , with clear margins. Axillary clearance of 30 lymphnodes, with 14 containing cancer cells, 16 clear. Was very tight and swollen in op area on thursday, so check in at clinic ultrasound and found seroma x2 so they have been drained, with weekly follow up for a while on that. Wow!
So while I cant raise arm yet above shoulder height or weight bear too much I am doing gentle stretch exercises slowing trying to stretch under arm area, which is crazy nervy tingly, sore, and some numb spots and very tight. Incision is one long line, neat and healing ok.
Next for me is chemotherapy and radiotherapy, probably to start April. There was a positive node (showed on pet scan and byopsied in chest which will be targetted during this), so local/regional spread.
All this, I am still grasping a bit at how I was so unaware of all of this going on inside! Stage 3 BC! Crappy indeed, but doing ok considering I think!
Summary of results of bcs (partial mascectomy) include removal of 3.2cm tumour (Left outer quadrent) and a dcis also found and removed during surgery , with clear margins. Axillary clearance of 30 lymphnodes, with 14 containing cancer cells, 16 clear. Was very tight and swollen in op area on thursday, so check in at clinic ultrasound and found seroma x2 so they have been drained, with weekly follow up for a while on that. Wow!
So while I cant raise arm yet above shoulder height or weight bear too much I am doing gentle stretch exercises slowing trying to stretch under arm area, which is crazy nervy tingly, sore, and some numb spots and very tight. Incision is one long line, neat and healing ok.
Next for me is chemotherapy and radiotherapy, probably to start April. There was a positive node (showed on pet scan and byopsied in chest which will be targetted during this), so local/regional spread.
All this, I am still grasping a bit at how I was so unaware of all of this going on inside! Stage 3 BC! Crappy indeed, but doing ok considering I think!