Saturday, May 30, 2009 I'm still in the hospital

I'm in the hospital still....

Saturday, May 30, 2009

this is going to be short cause Im on a ton of pain pills and very tried, I just wanted to fill you all in on what happned.So i came in Thursday Morning at 5:30 am for a bi lateral mastecomy with full reconstructive surgery (no expanders yeah) they also installed a port (ouch it hurts like hell) but it will make me getting stuck over and over for chemo easier. They also did a Sentinel node biopsy to determine if cancer has spread to the lymphatic system. The sentinel lymph node is the first lymph node to which a tumor drains. By finding the sentinel node before surgery, doctors can remove the node for study during surgery. Removing the sentinel lymph node, or nodes, also carries with it the possibility of lymphedema, although neither the extent nor the risk is as great as with axillary dissection. ti see If the sentinel node is free of cancer, medical technique that the dotcor used on me was called a frozen section to evaluate the lymph node tissue and gain preliminary information about its status during the operation. And was told during the biopsy that the first two lynodes did test positive so they went back in and removed about 10 -15 more nodes to have them checked.I will have to PET scan to see if the cancer has spread anywhere else in my body!