Deciding on Reconstruction or not
I am having a hard time deciding. Any thoughts on living without a breast, I feel like I will ok in theory but then I wonder what the reality will be like. I am 48 years old and married, my husband i...
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The sentinel node thing is not really painful, they inject a dye and tracer into your tumour area and this then travels to the sentinel nodes and they pick the tracer up on a scanner machine and mark it to make it easier for the surgeon to find the dye also makes it easier for them to find it/them once they are operating (you will pee blue for a day or 2 though and you can have some blue tinge to the skin of surrounding areas in some cases but it fades). Mine really wasnt painful no more than a normal needle for anything else.