A lumpectomy was scheduled for November, which I had to cancel and reschedule. Honestly, after cancelling the first surgery I considered not even rescheduling it, simply because I didn't "feel like" going through any more medical appointments and treatments, and after all. the holiday season was quickly approaching and my social calendar would surely have little room for recouperating. Call it what you will, intuition, gut instincts, my guardian angel, but something inside of me KNEW that if this was the one time I didn't get it removed it would turn out to be something much more.
I underwent a simple lumpectomy in mid December. I came out of surgery feeling very good, and very drugged, but alert enough to ask my doctor how everything went. She said I did fine, the surgery went well and that the lump was able to be removed very easily. As standard protocol the tissue would be sent to pathology and biopsied but it appeared to be exactly what she initially thought and that I could relax with nothing to worry about.
And so I did. I went home, a bit sore, healed well and returned on the 21st of December to have my sutures removed. VERY unexpectedly I also received the news of the pathology report.
Ta-Ta-411
- Tammy
- Diagnosis Date - 31 December 2007; Invasive Ductal Carcinoma (IDC) & Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (DCIS) Lumpectomy - 14 December 2007 Re-excisions - 31 January & 6 March 2008 Stage 2, Grade 2 Lymph Node-, HR+, HER2-, BRCA- Treatment; 4 cycles of chemotherapy; Cytoxan (cyclophosphamide) & Taxotere (docetaxel), every 21 days. Chemo completed July 2008. 6 and 1/2 weeks of daily Radiation completed at the end of September 2008. Left radical mastectomy with tram flap reconstruction August 2009.
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