Glad you've made it back from the dark side and your op went well. Seems you are faced with yet another difficult decision about your lymph nodes. I had all mine out with my first breast cancer op.But my surgeon recommended it cos my lump was 2cm and that gave me a 60%chance it had gone to lymph nodes.Apparently there is a 5% chance it can be in other lymph nodes when the sentinal ones appear clear. They dazzle you with statistics.Anyway,mine were all clear(18 of them).My arm is ok,just have to be careful with it.It might ache from time to time but have never had lymphodema-8yrs now.I'm sure Prof.Boyages will help you decide but don't stress if you need the op because the majority of us don't get lymphodema.
Good luck for wed. Tonya xx