I thank everyone who has been praying for me over the last several days, and for those of you intuitive enough to check in for lack of a Caring Bridge update after Friday’s 3pm appointment, you may have guessed that Friday did not quite go as we had hoped. Unfortunately, we heard just about everything we did not want to hear. The fact that cancer cells were found in so many lymph nodes has changed the game. Starting in July, I’ll be facing 6 months of chemo. After that, there will be several rounds of radiation…
I’m sure you remember from previous posts that we’ve already removed three lymph nodes which were all found positive for cancer cells, and if four or more are found to be positive, then it means radiation is required. So last night we received the final pathology report from the surgery. They had removed 10 more lymph nodes during the mastectomy, and it turns out there was ONE additional lymph node found positive for cancer cells. ONE!!! ARG!!! I mean, it’s not like I would have wanted there to be more than that, but COME…
I’m happy to share that last night, the doctor called with a bit of the good news we’ve been praying for! As they are working on analyzing all the tissue they removed, some of the pathology reports have come back so my doctor wanted to share before the weekend (cuz she’s the best!). Good news #1: Turned out the mass was measured to be 4.1 cm. The surgeon removed 4.9 cm of tissue, and all the extra margins all the way around the mass were clear – which is exactly what we…
