Thursday, 18 September 2008
The verdict is in....well almost I saw the surgeon today, after all the tests she put me through and there is good news and bad news. Good News: nothing has spread to any other part of my body...yet Bad News: the MRI shows suspicious blobs in my lymph nodes which could carry the cancer to other parts of my body; now I need a biopsy on that before surgery to determine if all lymph nodes in my right armpit need to be removed or just the first 2.
My Boob: there are now 2 lumps both over 2 cm in size but they are really far apart (I have big boobs).
Option #1: remove the lumps with a lumpectomy leaving my boob concaved. Option #2: do chemotherapy first to shrink the lumps and TRY a lumpectomy with no guarantee of deformation but might result in a mastectomy afterwards. Option #3: mastectomy.
All the above will be followed by chemotherapy (expect #2) followed by radiation. Option #3 will involve reconstruction from my own body after all the treatments are completed.
My mind is made up to take Option #3 but I'm also considering a double mastectomy. The doctor assures me that there is no medical reason to chop off the other boob but 1) I don't want to leave in fear of developing cancer in the remaining side and 2) I want my boobs to look the same. What would you do???
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