I called to clarify how things work on Thursday because a lot of people were asking questions about the timeline and it wasn’t making sense to them or me, guess I was zoning during the original explanation. So what they said today is: 10am – I am admitted to One Day Surgery Center @ Community. They send me over to Wellspring Breast Center, which is attached to Community.
At Wellspring:
*they will do more mammograms and locate the area of concern. They will do a needle localization where there put in a marker for the surgeon so he knows where to go and take the cells. (under local anesthesia)
*They will then inject some dye into the breast and locate the sentinel lymph node and remove that (still just local anesthesia) and send to lab for immediate evaluation.
Back to surgery center @ the hospital at this point where they will put me under general anesthesia
*they will start lumpectomy
*they will receive word from lab about lymph node findings and if they need to do more
*they also are immediately testing the tissue they are removing in the lumpectomy to test the borders. The *theory is to remove 1 cm. more around the area of concern and test the borders. If the borders are clear, *then they know they got everything. They keep doing that right there until borders are clear.
I will send Andy’s follow ups this evening once we get back.
Sherie
Back to surgery center @ the hospital at this point where they will put me under general anesthesia
*they will start lumpectomy
*they will receive word from lab about lymph node findings and if they need to do more
*they also are immediately testing the tissue they are removing in the lumpectomy to test the borders. The *theory is to remove 1 cm. more around the area of concern and test the borders. If the borders are clear, *then they know they got everything. They keep doing that right there until borders are clear.
I will send Andy’s follow ups this evening once we get back.
Sherie
1 comment:
Sherie,
OMG! Thank goodness you're resilient (and strong). And, it's also good you're letting people help.
Let me know if there's anything I can do on 9/11 or 9/12 and through the weekend as I'll be around if you need a nurse's!! and friend's help. And, remember that I live right near Community if you need anything (or if Andy want's company for a cup of coffee while you're in surgery). My sister went through the same exact thing last year and is recovering well as I am sure you will.
I just took a Reiki class so will also be sending you healing thoughts.
Renie
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