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Im back....


Sylv should be back on any time

I hope Dea survived the day!

Must go start dinner as 'they' will be back soon

You got the 27,300 Ginns!

Yes - I have survived - just about! Just going to sit quietly for a little while after all the excitement of the day.

We have been drawing, colouring, making cards and folders and bracelets. What she is REALLY good at making is a BIG MESS - in every room of the house for some reason ! :-D

All my shoes are out of the wardrobe - bits of snipped paper everywhere, AND we have been baking cakes so there is tons of flour and icing sugar which seems to have escaped the bowls and worktops onto the floor!

Thank goodness it's Friday - 2 whole days off for me :-D

Our Sylvs should be home soon - I hope things went O.K. for her.

See you all in a bit.

Dea x

Sounds like you had a harder day than me Dea....I wouldnt swap marking for kids!

I love kids really....when theyre not mine ;-)

Hi all
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OK, here it is


Just back from the surgeon's office.


Official diagnosis .............. Invasive Lobular Carcinoma

Treatment ............ Mastectomy on September 20, with examination of the Sentinel lymph node to make sure no cancer cells have escaped into the lymph system.

Further treatment after that ....... nothing, unless cells are found in the Sentinel lymph node



It was found almost by accident .............. she was very pleased that the mammogram clinic had taken the option of trying to determine the calcifications they had spotted on the May mammogram. They could have told me to come back in 6 months for a further check-up. Instead they did more mammograms and the biopsy, still thinking they were benign but with some uncertainty there.

It was not until the radiologist did the detailed examination of the core biopsy that they found the carcinoma cells


So ................... very early. So small that they have been unable to give a size determination.


She asked what I would like to consider as treatment.

"My druthers would be a mastectomy, and I've thought that for years"

Her response? "Good choice. It's certainly small enough for a lumpectomy to be perfectly acceptable, but you would always be worrying."



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Hi Sylvia <3 <3 <3

She sounds like a very sensible surgeon.

Not a nice thing to have to go through but it seems that they have caught it at a very early stage and the outcome looks very positive.

Not too long to wait then.

We will be here with you.

Dea Xxx

off out for dinner tonight


to the cabin on Tuesday for about 7 days


to our best friends on the island over the Labor Day weekend




and at some point in between all that I have to go for the pre-op blood tests, chest x-ray, etc.






Thank you all for your support, and love




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Hi dea
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thanks for doing breakfast, along with C and Persie


I went to bed very early last night, slept for 7 hours solid, without moving!







oh .................... forgot to say, I will probably be in hospital just overnight, so splurged by requesting a semiprivate (2 bed) ward. Our extended health will probably pay for it. But even if not, it will be worth it to me!





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Sylvia


<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

for Bravery (((((((((HUGS))))))))))))

Dea


she is extremely sensible, pulls no punches, says exactly what she means and means what she says.



That's why I liked her so much last time.



I have no doubt that she would have said no if she had thought the mastectomy was not a suitable option.



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Thanks Renes
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Had a bit of a surprise while we were waiting



There was another waiting area for another set of offices across the hall from where we were sitting. We both noticed a woman pacing around and looking upset.

Then, I looked over to see another woman had arrived and was talking to the upset one



The arrival was a woman I had worked with for about 10 years!


I went and spoke to her ............ upset woman was her sister, and yes, another breast cancer, and also her second go round.



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Syl....sooo glad they caught it quick <3

Are you REALLY only in hospital overnight for a mastectomy Sylvs? - Surely I have misread something somewhere?

Dea Xxx

Congratulations on your anniversary Sylvia. :-D

What a lot you have going on.

Amazing it is moving so quickly.

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

So glad you have a surgeon who doesn't beat around the bush and says it how it is. She sounds like the kind of doctor I like and you are in good hands. Will be thinking of you.

I've been busy helping my son find a permanent job. He's been temping since he was made redundant and although the money is good he would prefer something with less uncertainty. He also appreciates the fact that at least he is working. I am still taking rent off him which I put to one side so that if he does get lean patches he will have something to fall back on.

Dea


yes, it is now overnight for a mastectomy

You are sent home with the staples in


I was in for about 5 days in 1995. My niece was in overnight in about 2004.


They reckon that it is cheaper to have you in hospital for as little a time as possible .......... and ti is also safer as you ahve less chance of picking up an infection.


Even last time, I was released with the staples in, and had to go to the surgeon's office to have them taken out.


and, yes, they literally were staples :-D


OH was so amused whn he saw them (he hadn't believed me when I kept saying the word), that he burst out laughing, got off balance, and fell out the bedroom door into the hall way!



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Thanks LK



it sometimes seems impossible that we could have got to 44 years! :-D


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Gins


thanks so much <3



don't work too hard for the next couple of months :-D




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