Hi again everyone!
Thanks so much for all the love, care, concern, thoughts, etc that you have all shown to me in buckets!! really appreciate all the support. Sorry I didnt respond to all the emails - I tried to find a way to combine them all to write once, but havent worked that out yet!!
Today I saw the surgeon for follow up. Fran, thanks again for being there, came with me. I was hoping to find out everything the future holds.
We found out quite a lot! 1st, Katrina, the surgeon, is very happy with the way it is all healing & my arm movement, which I have not had any issues with at all. 2nd the cancer is a very nasty, aggressive one & will probably recur, which means chemo! It is not hormone affected which means I can do hrt, eat soy, etc. She took out 3 lymph nodes & there is one - ( 1 ) malignant cell in the 1st node. In days gone by they didnt have the technology to find this & its considered clear. So thats good. However I have to go back next Wed to meet with her again & the oncologist re the chemo. I wont be in on that decision as its discussed at a team meeting where all the doctors meet to discuss all the patients. They didnt have that meeting today because they were all in Melb!!! When she cut out the tumour, the margins are very good, so no issues there.
Hope i have done this justice & it is all clear (as mud) to u all!! Basically I dont know anything about the type of chemo, the length of time, the effects until next Wed.
Im going to start looking for work in the next very little while, its all taking its toll....
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