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LMK74
9 years agoMember
Got told today chemo failed
Today I met with my surgeon, I'm booked in for right mastectomy and full node clearance for 15th August. He told me chemo has failed and done nothing. Hearing that had my head spinning. I've just spen...
viking1
9 years agoMember
Did they work @LucyE? Why did you have an extra 22 hours and did you have a port? The idea of the port scares me but someone said it was good. I envisage it as a flap of skin covering a tube ... and if you go swimming you fill up with water! Funny, at the beginning of 'the cancer journey' (which is not glamping, it's a journey where you have to stay above country town pubs with frightening bed spreads) I was worried about my hair and asked the surgeon. Because it took me a long time to grow it long. Now I wonder if there should be a sign in the waiting room saying 'You have more to worry about than your hair!!!'