recently diagnosed

Diagnosed with breast cancer Recently diagnosed with breast cancer
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Hi all.

 

Just got diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer. seeing doc tomorrow morning at the QE II. still a bit in shock, but now i know what’s wrong i can get on with it. just really impatience now. wanna it out and i wanted done yesteday. i believe my doc will have everything planned already and probably a date for the surgery, Lister Hospital, Stevenage, according the the breast nurse. 

 

I beat Hep c after two hellish treatments, I’m certain i can beat this aswell.

 

how long does the surgery itself last? i live 15 minutes down the road from the hospital so i hope to go home the same day.

 

:cattongue:

 

Mar

 

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Hi MarMagenis,
First of all, welcome to the forum, there’s loads of support from all of us here.
It depends on the surgery, but for many of us who have a ‘wide local excision’ or lumpectomy, it’s normally day surgery, so in & out the same day.
It is a shock, but it does settle down & become a lot clearer.
ann x

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The full experience (Registration, conferring with doctors, sentinel node mapping and the surgery) amounted to almost 6 hours for me. But I slept for an hour after the surgery.

 

Avibaby