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I'm Baaaack!!!
WARNING: This post contains an image that may be triggering to some members - BCNA Hi there all you folks who have been asking after me and who have sent messages. Well...that was fun!!!. Nineteen days in the slammer. a week of which was in ICU. The aneurysm was safely clipped and after a bit of drama with my BP and…
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Is there a 'waiting on results' section? If not, this is re 'calcifications' on mammo high risk.
Hi everyone, I feel like I'm 'jumping the gun' here in 'newly diagnosed'. Could have sworn I saw a 'waiting on results' area but maybe I'm confusing my searches. I am considered high-risk and have been attending the highrisk clinic for approx. 15 years. This year, they called me back into the mammo room and asked to take…
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new diagnosis
Hi i have been diagnosed with DCIS high grade 43 mm in late august this year. Innitially the plan was mastectomy and reconstruction straight away using the tram flap procedure. I have had many appointments with plastics and breast surgeon thinking that this is moving quite quickly. I was told last week that the surgeons…
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Wussy needs advice please.
Grab your coffee folks, I'm afraid this is going to be rather a long and rambling kerfuffle. Next week, I have to return to the slammer to have an internal carotid aneurysm clipped. At my pre admission appointment (five people and six hours total), I was told that an arterial line would be put into my wrist to monitor,…
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Bras
I’ve heard it’s neither here nor there with underwire bras but I really want to buy some without wire now. I’ll have a divet in my lower left breast where the BC was removed but ‘gravity’ will likely take care of that. I’m not especially vain so don’t care what the bra looks like, just after some comfy ones while I’m…
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Overseas visitors staying during radiation
I am new here so hello everyone. I have had a mastectomy and a week later had my lymph nodes removed. I start chemo on the 10th of sept for 16 weeks then soon after that I begin radiation for 5 weeks. During that 5 weeks I have a cousin and her hubby coming from America. Am I going to be up to having them stay. I’m the…
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Waiting for chemo!!
Hi Everyone, I am new to this network. My name is Debbie and I was diagnosed with Invasive ductal carcinoma, grade 2, HER positive amplified, oestrogen and progesterone receptor positive, tumour 23mm, on 5th July, so after a life changing shock, out of the blue as no symptoms, at 51 went for my first ever mammogram. Thank…
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Newly diagnosed invasive carcinoma stage 2
Hi there , new to this .... Diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma in my right breast . Had a lumpectomy 3 weeks ago , 2 nodes removed and 18mm Tumor .Nodes were clear . Had satellite nodules in my margins which were not seen in any scan or during surgery, so margins were not clear , so had a second surgery last week .…
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Double mastectomy/nipple sparing
in 3 weeks I’m hsvibg a double mastectomy nipple and skin sparing reconstruction with expanders. ( I need radiation after and potentially doing DIEP reconstruction in the future once I’m fit and healthy) any tips for a speedy recovery? I have 2 young kids. Have cut out sugar and incredible my whole grains and raw…