My initial reaction was I wanted them both gone. It was only in one side but I was so distressed at the whole diagnosis I just wanted to be free of both of them.
It turned into being told I’d just need a single mastectomy. I just about got my head around it pre-chemo and resolved yo decide what I wanted when I could have a clearer head.
Chemo was brutal and I still assumed and became settled that I would be having a mastectomy and some sort of delayed reconstruction.
As it turned out my chemo was pretty effective and my surgeon (who we initially agreed it would be the mastectomy) and I both suggested maybe a lumpectomy and full node clearance might be enough. It turned out we were right and I hot clear margins and didn’t need to lose the whole thing.
All options are hard and at least initially suck but with time make more sense.
I’m happy with my surgery, just annoyed it’ll be so long before I can get evened up (waiting list plus my surgeon wants me to lose weight prior, which is hard when still on treatment).
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