I was diagnosed on 13th March with invasive cancer it is 1.5cm long and have been offered sentinel node treatment. I start tomorrow and am terrified that they will find it to be much worse when they operate. Surgeon told me Wide local excision, radiotherapy and tablets. Since then the breast care nurse has told me I may have chemo, should have my mirena out, may have to have my ovaries removed. From what seemed fairly straight forward it doesnt seem like there will be much left of me.
The op is wednesday so I just hope that everything is not too bad and it hasnt spread. Does anyone else feel like it is surreal as though it is not happening to you? You also have to keep strong for everyone else - I have two boys aged 17 and 18 and am worried to death about them as well as hubbie, mum friends etc.
Just yearn to be normal again and have some hope. Sleep is difficult but I do have some tablets - can you take sleeping tablets the night before your op does anyone know.
Next time I write I will be much more positive -promise
Hello Valindia
I was also told by breast care nurse that it wouldn’t be known until after results from mastectomy and axillary clearance whether I’d be recommended to have chemotherapy. In the end it wasn’t recommended, but I was glad that she had mentally prepared me for that possibility. I’m sure most of us on here totally understand this feeling that what’s happening at time of diagnosis, and some time after, isn’t quite real. My GP prescribed mild sleeping tablets as soon as I was diagnosed, and I took these while I was in hospital and until a couple of weeks after my results came back. Can’t remember if I took one the night before the op, but I imagine you’re going into hospital the day before so you can take your sleeping tablets and any other prescribed medication in and ask one of the nurses on the ward.
Very best wishes