I am on cloud 8
Wow! I am on cloud 8 right now, I could barely contain myself walking back to the car park from the hospital.
After seeing the radiologist, the news is that I don't need any radiation therapy. Is t...
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Thanks Girls for your support and feedback.
Yes, I am going to lunch with my partner on Thursday. It is coming a couple of weeks later than we planned, though now it seems even more of a celebration.
I am even finding a way to do some stretching exercises for my arm to get it back to "normal" without having to resort to pain killers.
I am not sure it is luck Leonie or the foresight to go with the mastectomy. The radiologist asked if I was given the option of having the mastectomy or a lumpectomy and as I recall the surgeon told me "You don't have a choice - the nipple has to go anyway, we may as well do the whole breast" so although he was taking a radical approach, now I am glad as there were other cancers that had not been picked up even though it did not spread to the lymph nodes.
Happiness is definitely relief though and I will enjoy it for the rest of my life - taking the regular precautionery path, and knowing I am, for now, safe.
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Sandy