Jenn - Update Part Deux

Hello everyone,
Jenn had her first doctor’s appointment(s) since the surgery on Wednesday and here is what came of them:

From the surgeon – Said the surgery was good. The tumor turned out to be about 4cm (or about 2 inches) in diameter so it was pretty big. He said the decision we made was good versus going the route to try and shrink the tumor and then save as much of the breast as possible was good because there were cancerous cells outside of the tumor and would have had to be removed anyway. He said they took about 5 glands out and that there are still cancerous cells in the armpit area that will probably need both radiation and chemo. We don’t know the schedules for the radiation yet (how often for how long) as she will have to see an oncologist sometime here in the near future to get that started. I basically asked if it looking good and he said the chest area looks good, that it would be better if there were no cancerous cells in the armpit but for what is in the armpit, it could be a lot worse. She will just basically have to keep a close eye on it from now on.

From the plastic surgeon – she got both tubes removed! I think she was most happy about that. She was thinking (hoping) maybe one would come out but both did. There wasn’t much more than that, he just wants to see her back next week sometime to check up on her again.

Today she got her appointments lined up (all 4 or 5 of them) with the oncologist, the surgeon, the plastic surgeon, etc.

I do want to say thank you again to everyone who has helped out her spirits with a card, e-mail, call, etc. during this time. You really don’t know how much it is appreciated by us both…

Jim and Jenn