emotional roller-coaster
emotional roller-coaster i was diagnosed in April this year with a Stage 1 invasive Ca, had lumpectomy and node biopsy, nodes clear, but there was a surrounding area of DCIS that they didn’t manage to clear. i’ve now had two further WLE’s…each time they’ve been confident of getting clear margins, but last time they didn’t so they suggested another WLE and mini-flap recon. i had the WLE on monday and i’m supposed to be going in next week for the recon. the waiting in between has been simply torture each time, and the disappointment more crushing. i just phoned again to see if they had the results from monday…and it looks as though yet again they might not have a clear margin, there’s a bit of ?DCIS or ?ADH that the pathologist wants to have a closer look at…after all these months of stress, three anaesthetics, i may well end up with a mastectomy after all and i can’t say i’m too happy about it. i don’t blame the unit, they’re very kind and very efficient and can only work with the info they have…but at the moment i just want to scream and kill everybody…
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I’m sorry to hear ur in this situation
I’m goin through a similiar situation too i’ve had four ops within a year n i’ve still not got the all clear,mine too is DCIS. I’ve had soo many lows along the way its been unbelievable n god help anybody thats come near on a bad day because how i’ve not screamed and killed somebody i’ll never know!!!
U Don’t mention ur age but i’m 21- n if one more person says to me that i’m too young for this to be happening im likely to loose control completely!!
I guess what im tryin to say is stick in there- i kno its a lot easier said than done, but there there is an end to al this, and so what if you kick and scream all the way to it, after all you’ve been through who wouldn’t!!
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