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linn65 · 07-31-2013, 05:51 AM

Becky, I just read your message. So I can get the right removed and the DIEP all the same day??? Oh that is such a relief to know that I can....I kept thinking what if I have to have to go in to remove the right side, come home heal and go back in IDK a couple months and have them both reconstructed with the DIEP flap. I don't have enough sick/vacation time for all the things to get done, so I need to be uhm fruigle (sp) with my surgeries!! LOL. I mean geez the reconstruction on October 24th is supposed to be 6 to 8 weeks off work. Then thank gawd the next one where nip/tuck as he said would be a 2 hour outpatient and two weeks off work. Then the final would be 2 hour outpaitent and if I have it on Friday I could go back to work on Monday. On the good note my time starts over in January so that would take care of those two surgeries!

However, if I do them both then I could skip the nip/tuck one, I guess. I know, I know I need to call the doctor to confirm...But as you know I talk to this board like I talk to myself it is my sounding board!!! VERY, VERY THANKFUL FOR THIS BOARD!

07-31-2013, 05:51 AM	#15
linn65 Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Attica, IN Posts: 371	Re: Thoughts on removal of opposite healthy breast? Becky, I just read your message. So I can get the right removed and the DIEP all the same day??? Oh that is such a relief to know that I can....I kept thinking what if I have to have to go in to remove the right side, come home heal and go back in IDK a couple months and have them both reconstructed with the DIEP flap. I don't have enough sick/vacation time for all the things to get done, so I need to be uhm fruigle (sp) with my surgeries!! LOL. I mean geez the reconstruction on October 24th is supposed to be 6 to 8 weeks off work. Then thank gawd the next one where nip/tuck as he said would be a 2 hour outpatient and two weeks off work. Then the final would be 2 hour outpaitent and if I have it on Friday I could go back to work on Monday. On the good note my time starts over in January so that would take care of those two surgeries! However, if I do them both then I could skip the nip/tuck one, I guess. I know, I know I need to call the doctor to confirm...But as you know I talk to this board like I talk to myself it is my sounding board!!! VERY, VERY THANKFUL FOR THIS BOARD! __________________ myleftlump.wordpress.com - started blogging my IDC breast cancer 7/2012 diagnosed with multiple solid lesions 7/20/12 biopsy done. ER+ 30 PR -, HER+++,k167 80% Grade 2 9/2012 biopsy on lymph node - showed malignant 9/2012 Pre-adjunctive TCH chemo. 12/6/12 MRI after Pre-adj. Results: Modest Decrease in size of left breast malignancy As well as the associated satellite lesions and auxiliary Adenopathy compared to prior study. Doctors hoped for better but good response it didn't grow. 12/18/2012 left masectomy with axillary nodes Size 3.2 CM, Nottingham score 9/9 Grade 3, no evidence of in situ carcinoma Areas of angiolymphatic are identified Carcinoma is 0.5 cm from inked deep Margin of excision Attached axillary lymph nodes: metastatic Carcinoma in 6 of 8 nodes. Size of largest node 1.5 cm Extracapsular ER + 73%, PR+2%, HER2+ 2/27/13 6 weeks of IMRT radiation finished 2/2013 Started on Tamoxifan 5 years. 8/2013 will take last Herceptin, 17 treatments total every 3 weeks. BRCA1 & BRAC2 - Negative August 28, 2013 DIEP flap on the left breast. February 2014 Nip & Tuck March 14, 2014 nipple reconstruction and removed port. August 14, 2014 lump in lymph nodes under arm and above clavicle. Stage IV August 28, 2014 herceptin And projeta starting and port put back in. 3/18/15 stopped arimidex. 3/18/15 progression....Tdm1