Hi Hope, Welcome to the forum and hope you are keeping well as best as you can. I was diagnosed with BC in May. Very similar situation to yours, I initially felt a lump, scans showed another tiny cancerous lump in the same breast, the left breast was fine. As a result, my consultation decided Mastectomy was the way to go. I was 44 when I was diagnosed. I had an operation in June, was in the hospital for 7-days (it was private). Due to covid, I was not offered immediate reconstruction. So it's still delayed and conversations will start happening soon for this. I have decided to stay flat on the one side and move ahead with my prosthesis and start enjoying life again. I'm glad the cancer is gone, all done by the end of June. Ops Recovery was about 6 weeks, but getting back to normal activities took a long time for me, I had to learn to just flow with how I felt daily and be kind to myself. Give yourself time to relax and follow your body signals. Some days, you want to just lie in and watch films, read, or even snooze. Other days, you have lots of energy and can move about a lot. However, the arm exercises and gentle daily walks in the garden, down the road helped a lot. My drain was in situ for the week. lots of information to take in, Its great you found this forum early and you can get useful information from the lovely ladies on here. I hope the above helped a bit and wish you well. xx
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