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Today Colleen and I will meet the surgeon and Colleen has decided that she wants to do a re-excision. I hope this is the best decision.
She decided to ask the surgeon to switch gears and do a mastectomy if he runs into anything that looks suspicious and he suspects there won't be clean margins. I'm not sure if that is possible or practical but scheduling surgeries is so time consuming that she has a fear that the time between her last chemo in February and her next chemo, which is four weeks after the surgery is getting ridiculously long.
Colleen seems to be a real fighter about all of this but I am just getting worn down by it all. I want this to be over.
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This happened to Colleen:
Diagnosed in September 2007
ER-/PR-/HER2 Neu+++ 2.1 cm x .9 cm spicluted tumor with three fingers, Stage 2B
Sentinal node biopsy and lymph node removal with 3/18 positive in October 2007
4 TAC infusions
lumpectomy March 2008, bad margins
Re-excision on June 3rd, 2008 with clean margins
Fitted for compression sleeve July 16, 2008
Started the first of two TCH infusions August 14, 2008
Done with chemo and now a member of the blue dot club 9/17/08
Starting radiation October 1, 2008
life is still on hold
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