the results are in…
It’s been a little over 3 weeks since my lumpectomy and I feel like I’m on track for a healthy recovery. The incision areas are healing quite nicely. The remaining breast tissue near the incision is still hard and bit…
post-surgery care
Thank you for all for your well-wishes, encouraging words, ice cream and all the feels! The day following my lumpectomy and sentinel lymph node biopsy, I took it easy. The pain was there, lingering on throughout the day but it…
bright lights, breast surgery
… They wheeled me off in a wheelchair, a first for me. The outpatient surgery center was the next street over from the imaging/mammography office, so it was a short ride to my destination. With my hubby and mom walking…
pre-surgery realness
Needles, dye, mammograms, more needles, and more blue dye… this is my pre-surgery story: The day before my surgery, I headed to the nuclear medicine department (sounds scary, huh?) to have images taken of my sentinel lymph nodes so my…