I am feeling pretty good today. At the appointment on Thursday I met with the breast surgeon and she says it is a small enough area for lumpectomy with no lymph nodes removal because DCIS (ductile carcinoma in situ) is a non invasive cancer while it is contained in the milk duct. She says I will need radiation after but I still have some questions on that. But… the other option is work with plastic surgeon for boob lift since they will be somewhat different after the amount of potential cancer and calcifications are removed. So meeting with plastic surgeon that the breast surgeon works with when we get back from Boston. The breast surgeon loves this approach because she can go for wider margins and then the plastic surgeon takes over and makes both boobs look the same. Almost as good as mastectomy with reconstruction from tummy tuck but much less recovery. Doc was very confident stage 0 and no spread and very low likelihood of 10 year recurrence. No hormones needed after since I am hormone receptor negative. And we can work around Boston time and Iceland trip. Meaning we will go to Boston next week for Jessica’s surgery and we will go on our Iceland trip in June. My surgery will be immediately after we return from Iceland but no specific date yet as there are still a few pieces that could change. I feel pretty good about it all, if there is a silver lining to breast cancer diagnosis I guess this is it. Now we just need prayers for May 1, that Jessica’s surgery goes well and there will be no lymph node involvement for her.
Back to looking for inspiration thoughts. Todays is:
“The best way out, is always through.”
We will get through this!
1 comment:
You and Jessica have had my prayers since I first heard and I will continue until you both clear and done with treatment❤️
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