Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Emotional

On the way to meet with the Doctor yesterday, I got a call from IMC Breast Care Center that they may have found an abnormality in the right breast, so they would like me to come and have an ultrasound.  If they do find something with the ultrasound they would like me to have a MRI guided biopsy on the right breast.  My heart sank, my world stopped for a minute and all these thoughts were floating in my head like it's now all over my body, etc. I lost it and the tears came.

Keith reminded me what Patty and other Doctors had said that sometimes MRI's can create false positives.  It's OK.  B R E A T H E, we'll go do this and if there is something we caught it now and not years later.  It's OK.  B R E A T H E.  Remember you chose to take one day at a time.

I met with my surgeon, who I really like and feel very comfortable with.  Right now I am having a lumpectomy next Friday, March 8.  I can do this because the tumor is small, if it was any bigger, I wouldn't have a choice and would have to have a mastectomy.  On the day of the surgery, they first do what is called a ___________ which is they attach a line that sticks out that the surgeon follows to see where exactly to operate.  He takes that out.  Then they cut a little under the arm and put some dye in to follow where the lymph nodes are and he take the first 2 or 3 that he sees.  The pathologist is there and begins to test the tumor and lymph nodes to see what stage we are at.  This takes about 72 hours.

The only change--------

The only change is if they find some malignancy in the right breast, then I have chosen to have a double mastectomy, unless those tumors are small in the right breast then maybe a double lumpectomy.  It is a waiting game.

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