Lumpectomy fear

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edited September 2019 in Surgery - Before, During, and After
Lumpectomy fear
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  • grayskies
    grayskies Member Posts: 52
    edited September 2019

    I am having a lumpectomy on Monday. I'm suddenly fearful that the surgeon is accidentally going to do a mastectomy instead. I can't lose my girls. I just can't.

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  • keepthefaith
    keepthefaith Member Posts: 2,156
    edited September 2019

    grayskies, sorry you are going through this. Please don't worry. They will ask you before the procedure what you are there for. They will make mark(s) on your body where they will excise. Best wishes!

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  • Beesie
    Beesie Member Posts: 12,240
    edited September 2019

    You have to sign off before the surgery and the surgeon is only allowed to do what you've signed for. And as mentioned above, before the procedure everyone (the head nurse, the doctor, the anaesthesiologist) will talk to you toget confirmation on what is being done.

    The days of a woman going into surgery for a lumpectomy and coming out with a mastectomy are decades gone.

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  • grayskies
    grayskies Member Posts: 52
    edited September 2019

    I know that my fear is irrational. I guess I'm just scared. Thanks for the responses.

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  • gb2115
    gb2115 Member Posts: 1,894
    edited September 2019

    Yup don't worry about that!!! It's going to be ok!!

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  • WC3
    WC3 Member Posts: 1,540
    edited September 2019

    grayskies:

    It would be a pretty big mistake for a surgeon to accidentally do a mastectomy. Every surgical procedure that I have had, the surgeon has come in to the pre op area to confirm what is being done so we both go in to the OR on the same page.

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