It has been a while since I posted, and the past week and a half have been pretty unusual. Three of my sisters were able to fly down to be with me during surgery and the worst days of post-op, and apparently they made a great impression on the doctors and staff. When Dr. Ma, the plastic surgeon, stopped to visit me in the hospital the morning after surgery, she said we all looked exactly alike. It’s funny, because we…
Mary got through surgery well, both doctors were very pleased and thought she did brilliantly. They took out 2 lymph nodes, and should have the biopsy results next week. The tumor does not appear to have grown since the original biopsy. She’ll have to take it easy for a while, no lifting for 4-6 weeks. She spent her preop time making her 3 sisters laugh uproariously, and we just managed to escape being thrown out 🙂 She’ll be in the…
After six weeks of waiting, during which my mass has undoubtedly grown so large that it will no longer fit in one of those “tiny houses” that everyone wants to retire to, I am having surgery in six days, and soon many questions can be answered. How far has the cancer traveled in the lymph system? Do I have the kind of cancer that is slower-growing and doesn’t respond to chemo (Oncotype-dx under 16) or the kind that is fast-growing…