thebreastcancerdiary

Happy Easter everyone.  I hope your day is one filled with good food and family and friends.  I will be going through my axillary lymph node dissection tomorrow and today is my weepy day.  All kinds of things are running through my head this morning.  I am trying to have a positive and happy attitude but it is not easy.  I am not so worried about the surgery itself but of the after.  I am right handed and this is on my right side.  How am I going to be after this surgery is the fact that it is on my right side going to make a good difference or is it going to make it worse.  What kind of drainage tube is going to be inserted and how will I take care of it? How long will it be in?  How will they take it out? And most important, what if there is more nodes that are infected?  How will this change my treatment, and recovery?

All these questions I will ask the doctor tomorrow but today they are just sitting there going around and around in my head.  I have looked at so many sites on breast cancer, read so many books that I don’t remember where they all are, but they have not answered the questions I have.

But I am a strong person and will be fine.  I am spending the day with my loved ones and will receive a lot of support.  I will be in the hospital over night so you will not hear from me for a few days.  But I promise to get back in here as soon as possible and maybe I can answer those questions for anyone who is facing the same surgery.

Until then stay health and happy,  Linda

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