OH MY GOD-you're HOME?!!! No rest for the weary! Carola,if its not prying, did they do a total mastectomy or just lump? Around here, they seem to just do lumps, but some of my friends went total anyway (even on both sides if only one side had the cancer...).....if its prying, ignore me, just wondering so I can have more information for people...
WOW girl..
Oh, and hospital food - believe it or not,its often catered from restaurants (ours comes from Marriot's source)-but has to be cooked till kingdom come per health codes...so blech.
Are they waiting for the path to come back before putting you into chemo/radiation??
We'll be here to kibbitz with ya through it all though!
Are you 100 percent German? My husband is 1/2, and 1/2 Irish - can you imagine a more tortured soul????One side likes everything neat, organized and orderly and the other half couldn't give a sh...darn....
Well, glad you're home and cancer is in the incinerator....where it belongs.
I had a bilateral masectomy. There was no other choice with the left due to the size and location of one of the tumors. The second one was voluntary. One consideration was to avoid a reoccurance although the risk according to my doc was low. My main reason was esthetics. I know I am so vain
I had gained a lot of weight over the last few years. Since May/June I had lost 48 lbs and ahem, how shall I say this, it was obvious on my chest. So I decided if I have to go through all this, I didn't want to have breast reconstruction matching the other big, saggy breast. Thanks but no thanks
Sounds much better to me to start all over with with two nice, smaller and perky ones
Ummmh, yeah the food. The chicken broth I bet was cooked for days and the "ice cream sorbet" was full of sugar and food coloring - YUCK!!! It turned my tongue totally purple, cracking my kids up and even they refused to eat that the sugary stuff. If you weren't sick before, that crap would make you sick.
I am assuming they will wait for the pathology report before they start chemo, because I won't start before I have all the facts and information. I will be meeting with two other doctors over the next few weeks. There are some advances that have been made with chemo but the info I have found so far are sketchy. One is where the chemo will be encasulated in a socalled "smart bomb" and delivered directly to any tumorous cells, sparing healthy cells. The other one is a similar concept but based on the fact that cancer feeds off / attracts sugar (which is how PET scans operate - the sugar attaches to the cancer / metastasis). It sounds really intriguing.
I am also meeting with a doctor / nutritionist for a more naturopathic approach for easing the side effects of chemo and fighting the cancer from a more integrative medicine approach.
Thanks everyone for your support!!! It means a lot to me and I can't ever thank you enough for being such an incredible support system and I will never forget. I think I am one of the luckiest people in this world!!
I am half German and half Swedish. I spent a few years of my childhood in Sweden but basically grew up in Germany.
