June 2014 Surgery Sisters

Hello! I think I will be having my surgery in June. I see my PS on Tuesday. I am ready to do this! Diagnosed on the 23rd April. I am new to posting. I only posted once when I was waiting on test results, but I have done a lot of reading here!

Hi all! I'm new around here, too, but have read a lot of discussion threads. My surgery is scheduled for June 3. I'm all over the place emotionally. Some days I feel like a warrior and I'm ready to kick some cancer butt, and other days I just want to cry. I know that's all normal. Meanwhile I'm going through the joys of immediate menopause. I had a total hysterectomy (ovaries included) two years ago and was on hormones but had to stop taking them after my diagnosis.

I'm looking forward to talking with more ladies having surgery in June.

Hello Thinkpink , Gila  and Sandra!!! 

 My emotions are all over the place too! Today is a good day though I have had moments where I am reminded, heck.. I have breast cancer and I have cried a few times today..

 My lump seems so much bigger now I am really aware of it..and sometimes I freak myself out a little too much and over think things.

Sandra you have been through a lot!! I would feel the same, enough is enough and you have had to deal with so much more than I think I could handle.

 I have IDC with some DCIS too.  Triple positive. First told it was 2cm but when I had my MRI this week, they said it is 3.6cm and one lymph node was swollen.  I am having lumpectomy with reduction and lift. ..and sentinel lymph node removal. Getting a port put in during surgery.

Hello everyone!

I have my surgery scheduled for June 6. I am getting nervous/anxious/excited for everything. I have been googling non stop looking at pictures, reading stories, really just anything I can get my hands on. I am having a bilateral mastectomy followed by diep flap/tissue expanders. My doctor chose this method because I don't have enough fat to make the size that I have now (DD) so he will make as much as he can and then add implants to make up for the rest. I haven't seen a lot of people getting it done this way, its usually one or the other so this should be interesting. I have also been looking at recovery time as I have a 1 year old daughter so I don't look forward to not being able to pick her up for a few weeks. So many unknowns for me! Glad to find this group  

Hello, I'm scheduled for a lumpectomy, or excisional biopsy, or something like that on June 2. The pathology report came back radial scarring. 1st surgery, praying it's the last. I'm scared, there's some history of breast cancer in my family. I keep getting told "it's not cancer", but my brain keeps insisting "so why do they have to cut it out then!" I've done enough research to realistically know the answer, still... I'm scared.

Hey my friends,

jdmac, thanks for thinking of me!  I actually got my surgery date today - July 1st, so I'm not a June Surgery Sister any more :-(  So did you get YOUR date?  As far as how I'm doing, I'm sooooo confused.  I don't have enough tummy tissue for DIEP flaps for two breasts, only one.  So the PS is recommending the DIEP flap for the right breast since it's been radiated in the past, and then an implant for the left.  I'm so discouraged.  I'm even thinking that I'm gonna be lopsided.  How can he possibly attain symmetry with two different types of recon?

clynnoli, stay encouraged, my friend.  We're all scared at some point (or points!) throughout this ordeal.  We're here for you, so know you're not alone...

sweetjam, no nodes, no nodes, no nodes!  That's my mantra too.  Praying for us...

sweetpea, you'll be on the other side of surgery before you know it.  And the unknowns are sometimes overwhelming because just when you think you've got a grip on this stuff, something comes along to prove you don't!  Hope your procedure works well.  Please keep us posted!

I'm still your Surgery Sister - I'm just June + one day...lol

One love,

tp4ever

Thank you for including me here. Sometimes I feel like such a baby with my little complaints compared to you all. I've had a sign in my office for a couple of years now "See the positive". Thanks for the words of encouragement, and I'm keeping you all in my thoughts wishing, hoping, praying for a positive outcome for all, whatever is positive for each situation. My positive for the day? I'm starting to get excited for my vacation before the surgery.

Sweetjam, what's the book you're reading? 

gila hang in there, some days you will not feel like socializing and it is ok to have a me evening.  You have a lot on your mind right now.  Now that pre-op is set take a deep breath and try to relax.  My pre-ops are tomorrow.

Tp4ever I am thinking positive thoughts only that you get the tissue procedures you want and all the insurance falls into place.  I know exactly how you feel.  I fought until I got a second flap procedure scheduled with my own tissue.  Where there is a will there is a way.  

Clynnoli welcome and have a great vacation before starting this journey.  I went on a cruise 3 days after my diagnosis and 3 weeks before starting chemo.  It was great even though we had a fire in the engine room and got stuck in the Gulf of Mexico for a few extra days while they towed us into Mobile, AL.  I missed my first MO appointment.  When I met him the following week, I told him I would do anything to avoid an appt to set up a chemo regime. 

Jdmac looks like you are first up.  We will be ready to hang out in your pockets or maybe Sandra can book the pink bus again for this month.  

Sweetpeak you have waited a long time to get to this point.  Take a deep breath and all you have to do is show up. 

Sweet jam I remember the anxiety about the nodes.  We will pray they are clear or if any thing is found it will be declared pcr (pathologically complete response) from your chemo.  I had one possible micro met in one node at surgery with a pcr status on my final path report.  I was so glad I did neo-adjuvant chemo so I could know it worked.  

Sandra what can I say, other than, I hope this next procedure is your last one.  You are a great example that everyone can overcome adversity with perseverance.  I am hoping to be through by year end.

I am praying for a good healing with this next procedure.  My daughter and son-in-law are coming home for 6 weeks starting June 18.  They are in education overseas.  SIL is the director of an International American school in Baku, Azerberjan and my DD teaches third grade.  They will have to go back the last day of July. 

Enough for now.

Hugs all!!!

hope all went well with surgery. I has surgery last Wednesday of a lumpectomy and removal of two lymph nodes. My tumor in my breast was six cm and my boob felt like a balloon The swelling has gone down but still black and blue. No port in though. Follow up is tomorrow. Chemo probably next week.

thank you, I'll try not be a whiny baby too much. Sometimes though it just seems as if everyone else wants me to be optimistic, and I just want to be realistic, prepared for anything, but hoping for nothing (diagnostic-wise). My hubby and I are traveling to Savannah, staying there for a few days, then driving down the coast to St Augustine. Haunted History and Beach Tour 2014.

todays positive: I was able to change seats on one leg of our flight to give hubby 6 more inches of legroom. He's 6'4''.