Treatment complete - leave port in - or take out? (m)...

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Good morning everyone! My treatment is complete as of 12/1. My Dr. says it's my choice to have my port removed. I then went out to the infusion room for my last Herceptin and the nurse suggested I might want to consider leaving it in for one year "just in case". I don't know.....I really want it out but on the other hand I am afraid of a recurrence. I was Stage 1, Grade 3, Her 2+++. I had a bilateral mammo and breast MRI and both came out clean. However, I did have a 3mm nodule in R breast, probably benign they say and I do have a lump I can feel in my cancer breast right near underarm which they say is most likely scar tissue and wasn't seen on neither exam, but told to just keep an eye on it.

What is everyone elses experience? Take it out or leave it in for a while? We are leaving on our trip to Disney World on 1/22 (delayed from last year because of cancer) and I just don't want any complications and then I can also start cutting back on my Coumadin (only taking because of the port/had a blood clot last year). I want to be done with all of this!

Thanks - Sandra