This is my first post on here, although I have been regularly reading all the posts since being diagnosed at the end of March with an invasive ductal carcinoma on my left nipple, I had a WLE and SNB on 1st May, but the following week my scar burst open and I was re admitted to hospital on 11th May with an infection to have the infected area removed, after a 4 day stay in hospital I am now home again and have 2 open wounds, one big one across my breast where the nipple was and a smaller one where the lymph nodes were removed which I have to have packed and dressings changed daily. I am so so fed up of this. and want to know for how long this is going to go on for, but I can't seem to get an honest answer, and have just been told it will take some time. We are going on holiday in August, and at the moment i am still worried that I will need daily dressing changes. Has anyone else found themselves in a similar position? Added to this, I was meant to get the results from the biopsy last week, but due to a backlog of results and my consultant being on holiday I won't get these until next week. I have already been told I will need radiotherapy, but am guessing that I won't be able to have this until my wound has healed. Everything just seems to be taking so much longer than I first thought, and I know I am being impatient but I just want all this to be over and my life be normaL again, and for my 3 lovely girls to be able to give me a proper cuddle without having to mind 'mummy's sore booby'. Sorry to moan and I know there are a lot of other women out there that have it a lot worse than me at the moment, but I've just had enough of this now!
