? Thoughts on changing mastectomy date
I'll have the mri Monday, then change heart meds which puts me close to Dec 22. I don't see an issue in waiting another week. Even just after hristmas, New Years is no big deal.My friends and family think I am just prolonging the inevitable. I don't think this is the case.
My Mom is elderly and I would like to have a Christmas with her justin case.
Your thoughts?
Peace
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Lynda
Lynda,
December 8, 2008 I was diagnosed with DCIS with invasion and did not have my surgery until February 2, 2009.
I would ask your doctor because waiting another week or two should not be a problem.
Best of luck and keep us informed.
Hugs,
Margo0 -
Thanks Margo my diag was early Septtommaseena said:Lynda
Lynda,
December 8, 2008 I was diagnosed with DCIS with invasion and did not have my surgery until February 2, 2009.
I would ask your doctor because waiting another week or two should not be a problem.
Best of luck and keep us informed.
Hugs,
Margo
I was on chemo, had to stop (allergic), and then a heart issue, now just trying to figure it all out.
Peace0 -
I found a thread that had myLynda53 said:Thanks Margo my diag was early Sept
I was on chemo, had to stop (allergic), and then a heart issue, now just trying to figure it all out.
Peace
I found a thread that had my story in it and I had forgotten to mention in it that my ejection fraction had dropped after the A/C treatment and that I had echocardiograms every three weeks and was put on Lisinopril 5mg to help my heart and then my ejection fraction came back to normal readings and now I have echocardiograms every three months again.
As you can see I had chemo after my surgery and not before.
Routine mammogram 11/10/2008--calcifications seen in left breast.
Special views 11/14/2008--cluster of calcification seen and biopsy recommended.
Left breast stereotactic guided mammotome biopsy 12/3/2008.
Diagnosis of DCIS with invasion 12/8/2008. Recommendation lumpectomy ONLY. Told my son who was 5 at the time that I had cancer and explained to him everything.
MRI of both breasts 12/15/2008.
Second opinion at Massachusetts General 1/14/2009 with Multidisciplinary Team with chest x-ray and BRCA1 and BRCA2 testing. Recommendation from Team-mastectomy because they could not tell where the invasion was. I opted for a bilateral mastectomy because of strong family history of BC.
Plastic surgeon consult-1/23/2009.
Bilateral mastectomies with tissue expanders put under the pec muscles 2/2/2009-my 45th birthday--"out with the old and in with the new."
Home on 2/4/2009.
Found out the I was ER and PR negative but HER2 pos.
First expansion 2/9/2009. Several expansions til 10/6/2009.
Follow-up visit in Massachusetts 2/19/2009.
Met with Oncologist 2/20/2009.
Had port put in 3/2/2009.
Started chemo 3/10/2009. Finished chemo 7/23/2009 day before Jake turned 6. Still on Herceptin until the end of August 2010.
Hair started falling out in clumps 3/26/2009.
Head shaving party at work with friends and family 3/27/2009.
I had tissue expanders removed 11/10/2009 with silicone implants put in. No muscle reconstruction except for expanding the pec muscles.
I have not decided whether to have the nipple reconstruction and tattooing yet.
It has been a long journey but with the support from my family and friends and this site it is a little less painful.
All my best,
Margo0 -
margo may I ask where in MA treatedtommaseena said:I found a thread that had my
I found a thread that had my story in it and I had forgotten to mention in it that my ejection fraction had dropped after the A/C treatment and that I had echocardiograms every three weeks and was put on Lisinopril 5mg to help my heart and then my ejection fraction came back to normal readings and now I have echocardiograms every three months again.
As you can see I had chemo after my surgery and not before.
Routine mammogram 11/10/2008--calcifications seen in left breast.
Special views 11/14/2008--cluster of calcification seen and biopsy recommended.
Left breast stereotactic guided mammotome biopsy 12/3/2008.
Diagnosis of DCIS with invasion 12/8/2008. Recommendation lumpectomy ONLY. Told my son who was 5 at the time that I had cancer and explained to him everything.
MRI of both breasts 12/15/2008.
Second opinion at Massachusetts General 1/14/2009 with Multidisciplinary Team with chest x-ray and BRCA1 and BRCA2 testing. Recommendation from Team-mastectomy because they could not tell where the invasion was. I opted for a bilateral mastectomy because of strong family history of BC.
Plastic surgeon consult-1/23/2009.
Bilateral mastectomies with tissue expanders put under the pec muscles 2/2/2009-my 45th birthday--"out with the old and in with the new."
Home on 2/4/2009.
Found out the I was ER and PR negative but HER2 pos.
First expansion 2/9/2009. Several expansions til 10/6/2009.
Follow-up visit in Massachusetts 2/19/2009.
Met with Oncologist 2/20/2009.
Had port put in 3/2/2009.
Started chemo 3/10/2009. Finished chemo 7/23/2009 day before Jake turned 6. Still on Herceptin until the end of August 2010.
Hair started falling out in clumps 3/26/2009.
Head shaving party at work with friends and family 3/27/2009.
I had tissue expanders removed 11/10/2009 with silicone implants put in. No muscle reconstruction except for expanding the pec muscles.
I have not decided whether to have the nipple reconstruction and tattooing yet.
It has been a long journey but with the support from my family and friends and this site it is a little less painful.
All my best,
Margo
I am at the new Dana Farber/Brigham Womens. SSH0 -
I wentLynda53 said:margo may I ask where in MA treated
I am at the new Dana Farber/Brigham Womens. SSH
My surgeon was Michelle Gadd at Mass Gen who specializes in breast surgery.
My plastic surgeon was Eleanor Pitts at Faulkner Hospital.
They both also do surgeries at Newton-Wellesley that is where my surgeries took place.
Awesome surgeons.0 -
a friend had Pitts at Faulkner awesometommaseena said:I went
My surgeon was Michelle Gadd at Mass Gen who specializes in breast surgery.
My plastic surgeon was Eleanor Pitts at Faulkner Hospital.
They both also do surgeries at Newton-Wellesley that is where my surgeries took place.
Awesome surgeons.
Best wishes
Peace0
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