Surgery confirmed

Surgery confirmed:

Have opted for lumpectomy with sentinel node biopsy, and radiation..

I will be having my surgery tomorrow. Jan 11th

I have to be there at 0715 to nuclear medicine… get injected with radioactive dye – to see which are the sentinel lymph nodes.

Then I go to surgical admissions and get a fine wire insertion into right breast (to show surgeon where rxactly the tumour is), where to cut

Then I have surgery 2 pm.

I expect to be home that evening….

I will have to wait for the staging and see if it has spread to the lymph.. if it has, will need to do mastectomy and lymphadenectomy… and chemo etc…

But for now… lumpectomy/sentinel/radiation x 3.5-6 weeks……

Wish me luck. M will be with me, and Maggie is coming to be there as well. 🙂 I’m a lucky gal.

…Pam…

Surgery Update

It’s not official yet, because they are still waiting for a “fine wire” time in radiology department, but nuclear medicine called this AM (Monday Jan 10th) at 0830 and told me that I was to be at Nuc med appointment for 0745… tomorrow morning. (They do these fine wire things on Tuesdays only. )

I then called Surgeon’s office as I had not heard from them Friday as to OR date, and receptionist told me that she had the OR time, but she wasn’t going to tell me it until she gets the “fine Wire” time from radiology as they need to do that bit before the surgery….

So right now it’s on hold until she hears from radiology and she said she’s going to call them around noon to see what’s up. I expect to hear from her after she speaks from them.

I said, so you are saying I have an OR time, but we can’t confirm that it’s a go for tomorrow because of radiology –not having a fine wire time booked?

She said yes that’s right, but that Dr J will have a hairy if they can’t get me in. I told her I would have a hairy too.

SO… it’s very much looking like it’s going to happen tomorrow, just need this last piece of the 3 prong puzzle to be fitted in.

Nuclear medicine = booked 0745

Fine wire Radiology = no time given yet, apparently it all hinges on this.

OR time = booked  (but I don’t know exact time yet, she didn’t want to give me yet until she gets Fine wire.)

I will post an update as soon as I know anything.

…Pam…