| post-surgery update |
[Oct. 15th, 2008|03:42 am] |
Thank you for your prayers and kind thoughts.
Surgery went fine, and the doc said he thought it looked benign, though we still have to wait for pathology reports, which will come Thursday or Friday. I'm trying to be really happy about that, but I'm so out of it and emotional from the anaesthesia that all I can muster is vague relief.
I slept most of the afternoon, and now I'm awake off and on.
I'm in a lot of pain now. The incision is a lot longer than I thought it'd be, and touching any part of my breast hurts. I assume there's a decent amount of damage in there, because everyone talks about how incredibly dense and tough the area is, so it might have been a little more work to get it out.
I'm really hoping this doesn't affect my ability to nurse future children. The incision is from about 11 o'clock (maybe 11:30) to 3 o'clock position along my very large areola, and the bad area they took out was about 2-3cm x 1.5cm x 1cm, located a little ways out from the areola. He said, in the consult, that he'd try to do as little damage to the rest of the network of ducts and lobes, so as to preserve my future breastfeeding ability.
There is a definite dent, which he said he'd be able to avoid, so I'm hoping that means that the rest of my copious breast tissue will take over and fill in the area sometime.
I'm also on an emotional roller coaster, coming down off of the general anaesthesia. I'm Miss Crankypants Weepsalot. Hopefully, that'll go away in another day or two. My sister has had a lot of surgeries, and she's usually really cranky for the first day, then weepy for a couple of days.
I'll post again when I have pathology reports, presumably saying I don't have cancer!
Thank you all again for your support. |
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