I'm one week post mastectomy. Spent one day and one night in the hospital and got to go home. Yeah! I've already had one drain removed and waiting on the last one to be removed this week. I have a little numbness of my upper arm but all-in-all it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be--prayers answered!!! The doctor told me she removed a good many lymph nodes and there were a good many that were positive. She then told me that the pathology came back and that I had clear margins and that although I had 3 tumors instead of one, that she was happy that it appears that they got everything. She couldn't tell me if I will get 4, 6 or 8 treatments of chemo but she did say that I will have radiation. During my first visit with this surgical oncologist, I got the impression that she isn't into labeling the stages but she did indicate that she thought it would be about a stage II knowing that I had positive lymph node involvement from the biopsy. Now that it appears I had 3 tumors instead of the one they original thought.  Does that mean it is now a stage III?  I also had a PET scan and she indicated I only lit up around the area in question, do you think they will need to do more scans?