5/25/09 Update on what proceedure Im having done

Update....

Monday, May 25, 2009
Okay so I'm going to make this one short, I will type more laterI'm scheduled to go for my bi lateral mastectomy Thursday morning at AAMC. Following the mastectomy I will have reconstructive surgery and depending on how it goes the surgeon maybe able to give me my full implants without me going through with the expanders faze since I'm going down in size (Yes!!! I'm shrinking the girls) If I were going up in size my skin would stretch and I would not be able to heal. Thankfully God has blessed me with extra stuff I MAY not have to go through all that extra surgery.During the operation they check on my lymph nodes to see if they are infected as well....Whether the lymph nodes contain cancer cells is an important factor when staging breast cancer, determining treatment, and predicting survival. Though breast cancer has the potential to spread to other regions of the body first, it most commonly spreads first to the (underarm) lymph nodes. This is known as regional spread. From there, the breast cancer can metastasize (spread) systematically to other areas of the body (such as the bone, liver, lung, or brain). Right now the Docs are saying that I have a 50/50 chance of having infected lymph nodes due to the tumor size and its aggressiveness...but the MRI looked clear! So there is a chance I may not need either! (Glass is always half full)