Surgery Date

kdavis212 said:

Good luck with your surgery,

Good luck with your surgery, hope all goes well! I will be right behind you. Having b/l mastectomy in August. Will be very interested to see how things go for you.

 

Karen

Hi Karen, how are things going for you and what is your Dx? Mine is Invasive Lobular Carcinoma.

Doe1504 said:

Wow! When they get the ball

Wow! When they get the ball rolling, they really get it rolling. Glad the dr called you and I know July 18 will be a dreaded day, but, you will do great! The surgery is not that bad. I am 5 weeks post op as of yesterday.  During reconstruction I feel "full" and have some numb areas in my chest, but, never really had any pain. You will do great!

Hi, I have been thinking about you, we have not chated for a little while, it is so encouraging to hear you say that it was not that to painful, are you done with your expanders yet, if not do you know how many you need before the implants go in? How are you doing?

Shary

Doe1504 said:

Shary, The PS said the entire

Shary, The PS said the entire process will take about a year. He will still do saline fills between chemo appts. Once they get the size I want, we will go back to surgery and he will replace them with silicone implants. I am getting use to the numb spots and tight feeling in my chest.  I have literally had no pain! I am numb in the spots he uses to fill the expanders, so no pain there either.   It just takes some getting use to them, but, better than the alternative. Everyone that I have heard talk about the implants are happy with the finished product. I am doing well and hope you are too. I have my first chemo this coming Thurs. Do you know yet if you will have to take any treatments? Praying you do not!

Dolores

Hi Dolores,That's exactly what my PS said, about a year from surgery through expanders,implants and then any tattooing that may be done. I don't know about any treatment yet, I go see my surgeon tomorrow, he is about 3 hours away from where we live, he is going to do my H&P. Maybe he will have more news for me but I got the impression that I won't know about chemo until the nodes are checked during surgery. All of my Pre-op work up is done so I will spend the next few weeks getting ready around the house and garden, I finally got some jalapeño peppers, Anaheim peppers and bell peppers in yesterday and last night while we were at a friends for the evening my daughters one year old shepherd mix pup pulled them all out

Doe1504 said:

Oh no!, sorry about your

Oh no!, sorry about your peppers

I had a sentinal node removed a week before surgery and found out when I went for my surgery that the node was neg. Yay! Because my tumor was larger than a 2 cm ( it was 2.2) I have to do chemo.  I had 4 tumors all totaling more than 5cm in the same breast. I have to have 4 red devil, adrimycin and cytoxin, then 12 weekly taxol treatments. I dread it. I sure hope you don't have to have any.

Let me know what the dr says tomorrow and keep me posted.

Dolores

 

That is interesting ththey hey did the sentinel node removal prior to surgery, I bet that gave you some peace before surgery:-) I was just reading about Red Devil on the Inspire site, sounds like they should call it Draino. when do you start? I want to tell you a little something about my last 3/4 weeks, on wednesday the 30th I got a call from radiology that there was something suspicious on my mammo and he wanted more pictures and an ultrasound, during the U/S he said he did not like the looks of it so he had me returned the next day for my Bx, that was also my Grandsons 1st birthday. Friday the 31st he called me with the Dx and advised me to see my PCP for a referral to a surgeon, which I did. Saturday we had some family in town and we were out for the day, when we got home we found our Mini-mini doxie and our Shi-tzu had been badly bitten. We have an old mellow shepherd, my daughters shepherd mix, also a sweet girl and an almost 3 year old Jack Russell Terrier( a rescue) who was my baby, unfortunately he had been getting more aggressive and protective. We had to call the vet and take the girls in for emergency treatment. Sunday we had to make the choice to have the JRT( Rowen) put down, I have been extremely emotional over everything to many bad things to fast. My garden has always been my solice  and Rowen was always  by my side, so when I put my peppers in I was trying to make my yard feel happy again, so when Ava pulled them out I thought"ok" replant so I went to the nursery and got some Herbs, peppers and some flowers planted them this afternoon :-) The little girls are healing and getting better, sometimes I just don't understand how so much pain can come so quickly, I am trying to move on so I can focus on getting myself better, i feel so bad about the girls and I miss Rowen terribly, sorry for rambling but it helps me to move forward. So we will see if my new flowers,herbs and peppers survive and I will keep you posted after my H&P tomorrow.

Shary