February 2015 surgery

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  • AudreyB
    AudreyB Member Posts: 377
    edited February 2015

    Hi everyone.

    I'm having my left lymph node (3 of them) removal surgery March 3. I have also opted to have radiation on left breast and take tomoxifan or something similar to keep cancer at bay in right breast. BS said she got clean margins from left breast lumpectomy (IDC).

    So, no mastectomy. Just living life waiting for a reoccurrence that hopefully won't happen. Mamo and sono every 6 months for 2 years. My sis had exact same cancer and treatment and is 5 years cancer free.

    Glad to see everyone is doing well. You women have been my strength.


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  • greenae
    greenae Member Posts: 540
    edited February 2015

    Hi all

    I think I am getting myself confused with which thread I am on...I just want to make sure I thank all of you for your advice and kind words. tracer injections tomorrow and left mx with TE on thursday at 1pm. Getting house ready for recovery...and So Grateful for All of You! ( and a big bottle of ativan from my PMD-yay!)

    love, arlene

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  • justamy
    justamy Member Posts: 532
    edited February 2015

    Arlene, it will be over before you know it and you'll be on your way to recovery! Ativan definitely will be a help! Will be praying for you. Hugs Amy

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  • greenae
    greenae Member Posts: 540
    edited February 2015

    Thank you, Amy! <3


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  • faithhopecourage
    faithhopecourage Member Posts: 37
    edited February 2015

    Morning everyone!! Glad to see for the most part everyone is hanging in there and staying strong!!

    Congrats Amy!! No drains and no port. Fantastic news!!!

    Heading out for my 1 week post-op with PS. Also hoping to lose these drains.

    I am so swollen under my arms. In fact, I feel swollen period. My stomach is bulging!!! Anyone else experiencing this???

    Love to all!! With each day may we grow stronger!!

    Joanne

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  • zjrosenthal
    zjrosenthal Member Posts: 2,026
    edited February 2015

    Arlene, you will do fine. Conrad's to all who are progressing in recovery. My drain is still putting out 40+cc's daily. I would like to get it out before the weekend so I can get started with rads prep. Sims etc. I see the BS on Tuesday and the rads doc sometime next week. I finally feel like there is an end in sight, way off in the distance! Love, Jean

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  • farmerjo
    farmerjo Member Posts: 518
    edited February 2015

    Joanne...I am not overweight by any means but had quite the belly post-op. Anesthesia does crazy things and digestion slow-down is one of them. The narco just adds to it.

    I am almost two weeks out and belly just returning to normal.

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  • faithhopecourage
    faithhopecourage Member Posts: 37
    edited February 2015

    I am back from ps. Drains are out and I am free!!! Best of all, I can shower!!!!

    I had 200cc put in each breast. Isn't that a lot?? Feeling tightness, but not too bad.

    Thank you Jilly59. I feel like I have such a pot belly!!!

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  • RAK1
    RAK1 Member Posts: 240
    edited February 2015


    I am also swollen! My stomach looks like I'm four months pregnant!  :)

    These drains are a pain in the butt, I now know what all the talk was about!

    They do feel like little friends hanging around everywhere I go!

    My face broke out with pimples, yuck!

    I am recovering quite better than I imagined I would!

    Love Robin

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  • farmerjo
    farmerjo Member Posts: 518
    edited February 2015

    Thinking of Greenae and hoping she's doing well today with her tracer injections.

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  • katcar0001
    katcar0001 Member Posts: 621
    edited February 2015

    Hi all, I somehow missed this thread (how does one keep up?!) and already had my lumpectomy on Monday. Praying for benign results on Friday. We could have dealt with this lesion when I had my mastectomy in Dec., but I decided to wait and watch. Then I got nervous and said take it out! Wishing the best for all of you and a quick recovery.

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  • greenae
    greenae Member Posts: 540
    edited February 2015

    hi all

    Tracer injections done. Not so bad. Whew! Waiting to be scanned. So, I guess I am Hot! Thank you all! I took a xanax and deep breaths, and YAY! It's done!

    Love arlene

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  • AudreyB
    AudreyB Member Posts: 377
    edited February 2015

    Arlene, glad your tracer injection was not so bad.  We worry ourselves to death, while its good to be informed, I personally always hold onto the negative stuff I hear, never the positive. 

    Welcome Katcar!

    Faithopecourage....yay for no drains!

    Rak1, your drains will be out before you know it.

    A big hello to Justamy, zjrosenthall and jilly59.

    Its hump day, sigh.

    Love to all

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  • farmerjo
    farmerjo Member Posts: 518
    edited February 2015

    Audrey...I'm sure you made the right decision. Always go with your instincts (and a little help from the doc). ;)

    Will be jumping to the March surgery sisters to keep an eye on you!

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  • farmerjo
    farmerjo Member Posts: 518
    edited February 2015

    Yay Arlene! What a trooper. So happy it went well for you.


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  • justamy
    justamy Member Posts: 532
    edited February 2015

    Way to go Arlene! You are well on your way!

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  • justamy
    justamy Member Posts: 532
    edited February 2015

    I've had a strange day with BCO. I have posted here since DX in July. I have had 4 forums in my favorites that I have every post sent to my email do I can keep up. This is one of course. I have NEVER had a truly mean or hateful post directed at me ( I can't recall one at all). Until today.

    My point I guess is to warn you to be careful when you chose boards to bare your soul to...I wasn't. I also want to tell you all thank you for being a wonderful group of ladies who have given nothing but love and support...hugs to you all...Amy

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  • zjrosenthal
    zjrosenthal Member Posts: 2,026
    edited February 2015

    Arlene, glad the tracer is done. Now you can glow in the dark for 24 hrs. Teehee. Now if your pee turns blue don't worry. Love, Jean

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  • farmerjo
    farmerjo Member Posts: 518
    edited February 2015

    Amy!!!!!!! I'm absolutely dumbfounded someone would say that! I've never found ANY of your posts to be boring...quite the contrary as they're informative to me. And you have never come across to me as someone high on pain meds. My heart hurts for you.

    Can you share the board title? I want to add it to my 'do not enter' list.

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  • Rose0766
    Rose0766 Member Posts: 92
    edited February 2015

    glad to read that everyone seems to be doing so well! I've been keeping my mind off things by cleaning house in prep for OR Friday. When my mind is idle it worries, so keeping busy has been the cure. Went for my herceptin infusion yesterday, the office was busy so 930 appt didn't get me into see MO until 1015, didn't get done with treatment until 12. Go to see PS tomorrow for preop visit, hoping to get all my scripts and instructions then, and surgery is Friday at 1230. This has been a long time in coming. Wasn't really anxious about it until today, now I just want it over with. Thanks to all of you who have gone before me, it makes me believe this is all tolerable. Gentle hugs to you all! Going shopping tomorrow for groceries. My husband is so funny-we need to stock up on provisions , lol. We better circle the wagons while we are at it

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  • greenae
    greenae Member Posts: 540
    edited February 2015

    Oh My Gosh...Amy! I would like to kick some butt. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

    You and everyone has been so, So, SO helpful to me! Thank you...preparing and packing for tomorrow's surgery. Love to All of You...except the idiots that gave Amy a hard time!

    Love, arlene

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  • jabec
    jabec Member Posts: 70
    edited February 2015

    Just some encouragement for those who just had surgery or are about to. yesterday was 3 weeks since surgery for me and today I'm feeling like a different person. I definitely have turned the corner. I drove my kids to and from school and met friends for lunch. I can now easily buckle and unbuckle my seatbelt, turn the steering wheel with full arm movements instead of lots of tiny movements and I even have short periods when I don't feel my te's at all. Sleep is still not great without meds, but last night may have been tough due to DH having a cold and coughing all night. And he complained about me snoring from sleeping on my back! I'm hoping for my first fill next Tuesday but PS said I need to do a lot of massaging to relax the muscles and to get the pain sensations under control before he will do it. Of course, I got called for jury duty starting on Monday, but I'm really hoping my number is high enough that when I call in the night before I'll be told I'm not needed. I'm sure I could get my PS to write me a note to get out of it, but it will just delay it and I've got nothing else going on right now except for Dr appointments, that I'm sure are not urgent. Well, just want to let you know that sometimes things aren't as bad as we image they will be. I still would like to have no pain and completely normal arm movements, but I can deal with this right now, especially knowing my cancer is gone and I will never have to worry about it again.

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  • NurseShark
    NurseShark Member Posts: 176
    edited February 2015

    thats awful Amy!! I am sorry .you are strong and so helpful with your honesty in sharing experience s. But what do I know I just took my ativan and oxy 😁👏

    t

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  • RAK1
    RAK1 Member Posts: 240
    edited February 2015

    You are right jabec, never as bad as you think! I want to be done with pain also!

    I'm running out of pain meds. I only have 4 pills left until Friday!

    Amy, I know every thread is not as sweet. We have many wonderful women here!

    Love, Robin


     

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  • zjrosenthal
    zjrosenthal Member Posts: 2,026
    edited February 2015

    Glad we are all progressing. Amy how rude. I get so much support here. Why would anyone be so awful? Hope the moderators take care of it so no one else has to experience such lack of compassion in the vulnerable place we are all in dealing with BC. I am doing amazingly well. Mr. Pratt is still putting out too much fluid to be removed (45cc's in 24 hrs) but hopefully I will bid him goodbye at my post op on Tuesday at the latest. I still have almost a full bottle of pain pills on my dresser and full range of motion in my arm. Remember I only had ALND, no mastectomy! I admire all of you for your courage. We will get through this and go out to even better lives with deeper appreciation and gratitude. Love, Jean

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  • BBwithBC45
    BBwithBC45 Member Posts: 727
    edited February 2015

    I'm going back to the OR tomorrow, but this time it's "just" for the port for my chemo. Maybe the hospitals should start giving out "frequent guest" cards, like hotels? How many points does one need to achieve a VIP status? Upgrade to a luxurious OR anyone?

    Good luck to all and a good night. Hugs.

    BB

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  • dancingdiva
    dancingdiva Member Posts: 475
    edited February 2015

    Amy, I can't believe how some people can be so mean!!!seriously??? Too boring? That's just sad on their side and shows how shallow they are.

    jabec, won't they excuse u from jury duty with all the health stuff going on?

    I went out today from being couped up in the house for days. What a difference!!! My knees and legs feel so much better now than how they feel when I'm just sitting around all day. Went to see Whiplash. Great movie....good distraction from life :

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  • roadrash
    roadrash Member Posts: 145
    edited February 2015

    That is terrible Amy! I'm glad you have left that board. You are very correct we sometimes need to guard ourselves because people are not so kind. I and other women who prophalatic mastectomy were shunned on a cancer board because we didn't get an official cancer diagnosis. This same board scolded women for Uni and mastectomy over a lumpectomy. Shame on all these insensitive fools. There is no difference between my drowning in an inch of water or someone else drowning in 3 inches. We are drowning, let's throw each other a life preserver and help. Women encouraging women, that's what I'm all about.

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  • JustAJennifer
    JustAJennifer Member Posts: 85
    edited February 2015

    roadrash- I like how you expressed that, very true. I don't think anyone should set rules for their threads, that's not what community is about.

    Hoping Arlene and others with surgeries this week are doing well in recovery.

    Question for you ladies- after drains are out, is it ok to sleep braless, or have you been instructed to continue wearing compression at night? I'm going to call the office to double check today

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  • ksusan
    ksusan Member Posts: 4,505
    edited February 2015

    Double went OK yesterday after they managed to get a line in. No foot sites worked. But after that, out in a flash, no Opiate in the anesthesia, up and chatty in recovery, Comfortable enough though when I stand I feel dragged over/hunched from drains (4), binder. Some phantom nipple pain, some bloating, throat scratch from tube. The surgeon took 2 sentinels on the left one on the right,

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