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Lumpectomy Success!

By Peglove Monday, November 09, 2009

Hello Sisters,

 

with one hand, i will tell you the short version....lump went well! my surgeon was confident they got clean margins around it. She took out the sentinel node and the next one up, and they looked clean too, but no 100% until the path lab comes back with the report on Friday. 

 

But it looks really good. The docs say mammos every 6 months for 2 years, then one a year for the rest of my life...

 

 6 weeks of radiation to follow once i am healed. And 5 ears of tamoxifen. Hoping for a great path report and a quick recovery.

 

need to lie down now and rest! hugs to you all!

 

Peglove* 

lumpectomy recovery day 4!
PJ Hamel, Health Guide
11/ 9/09 4:24pm

Well, isn't that great, Peggie! I'm SO glad things went well for you this time. Hope the path report comes back good, and you'll be on your way to radiation and tamoxifen and great health! PJH

11/10/09 6:32am

congratulations.. it looks like you are almost over this nightmare.. i'm so happy for you.

I've been waiting for your post all weekend long, waiting to hear how the lumpecotmy went.  It bring me a smile to read that it went well

 

Hope this is the beginning of a very healthy life for you.

 

Sandy

 

 

11/11/09 5:18pm

Yay Peg! You go kick some cancerous ass!

 

Call me!

11/12/09 1:39am

Yes! I am so glad to hear from you, Trace!

 

I am still mending, hurts like hell, and it aint over...so, I am going to continue to blog about the recovery, and radiation, what tamoxifen is like, scars? no scars? 

 

but i only have my index finger on my left arm helping me right now.

 

so i will write more later.

 

there is serious pain in my armpit, and very tender and swollen. i dont have a fever, so no infection. sometimes it feels like hot liquid is tricklin down my arm, but there's nothng there.

 

other times it's like an arrow shoots from my nipple to my armpit, lightning fast! Yeow! Peew----peew---peew...like that!

 

I am trying to take very limited amounts of meds, because they make you...well...it's really hard to go...you know...go! so I had some prunes...prunr juice...cod liver oil...

 

now it is like a contests against time...how long will it take for peg to go?... maybe one day more? half a day? three days?

 

will i just pop?

 

ugh. But I am sooooo happy to be 95% sure that I am going to be a-okay. But there is still lots to do ahead.

 

hugs and love and moving my arm little by little on day 4. 

 

Love Peg.

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By Peglove— Last Modified: 09/04/10, First Published: 11/09/09