Tomorrow is the day, I have to be at the hospital at 6am, my best friend is picking my daughter & I up around 5am to take us to the hospital for my mastectomy & Axillary clearance. Today is my birthday, I've had lots & lots of friends wish me well & some friends dropped in to see me today, with gifts & cake. My boyfriend…
Hi, Just wondering if anyone has had experience with the need to have orthopaedic surgery on the arm that had most lymph nodes removed at time of mastectomy? I also have mets in my sacrum. My last breast surgery (both have been removed) was 2011. Thanks kathleen
Hello ladies, I had tests (mammograms, ultrasound, core & FNA biopsies) last Thursday week & got my results on Tuesday 11/04/17, so very newly diagnosed. From what was going on & reactions, things that were said i guess I just knew. So by the time I got my results, I had started my journey to acceptance. Everything is no…
Reclaim Your Curves - Sydney Support Group Lunch For those ladies who may be located in Sydney you are welcome to come and join us for a relaxing lunch at the Dragonfly Cafe, Eden Gardens - Macquarie Park Sunday 30th April - 12noon to 3pm. It's a wonderful opportunity to meet new friends, share gems of information, ask any…
it now appears there is a risk that I will not be able to have my mastectomy as I am in a wheelchair!!!! read these two links which are in our local paper today. You would all know the various, and sometimes all at once, feelings, thoughts and moods you go through, especially in the first couple of weeks of diagnosis.…
Hi All I am about to turn 50, happy birthday me! I have just been diagnosed with breast cancer. They say a lumpectomy with radiation will do, but that is what they said to my sister and it came back big time. So to me it's a no brainer, get the whole breast off, however I am thinking why would I keep the other one??? To…