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Getting ready for op
hi all.
back from 11 day visit/holiday with my sister to visit my niece in Japan. This had been booked Oct 2015. Apart from calls from doctor and hospital it was great. I go in on 1/04 for my mastectomy and have been told it should only be overnight but home with a drain and visits from a nurse, if all goes well. I am wondering when/if I get a breast nurse. I did ask surgeon but he said hospital would arrange, when did you get to met yours? Did you get one?
cheers
Cheryl
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- Hi Cheryl, I self referred to my local breast care nurse when i was diagnosed. I then chose to have surgery in a state capital, and was called by a breast care nurse from that hospital a few days before surgery. I have finished active treatment, but still have regular contact with both bcn's. take care, Lyn
Hi Cheryl - my breast care nurse came to visit as soon as I was taken to my room on booking in (sounds like a hotel doesn't it!, I was in for 7 days with the mastectomy) and she has been with me ever since. They are a godsend and will look after all those questions for you. Write lots of notes.
Good luck with your treatment, Take care
Christine xx
They are breast care nurses from the McGrath foundation. Put your area in the search box and one near you should come up. https://www.mcgrathfoundation.com.au/OurNurses/MeetTheMcGrathBreastCareNurses.aspx
Morning
thanks for that. I am really keen to meet with someone who can answer my questions about prosthesis. Surgeon also said nurse would do that. I really don't want to go back to work 1 boob down.
Cheryl
I forgot to say that I got my breast nurse a few days after my first lumpectomy.
I am in Melbourne. My surgeon passed on my name to my breast nurse who then rang me. She is utterly wonderful, and even dropped in to see and comfort me while I was in the pre-op room waiting to go in to my mastectomy!
