Tuesday, 16 February 2010

The Diagnosis

On 16th February I returned to Lister Hospital to meet with my consultant Mr Agarwal (a lovely little man who is hard of hearing and is very softly spoken).

I went along with my mum to see the consultant whilst Jay (my husband) and Amber (my daughter) waited in a different clinic where my mother-in-law works.

Strangely my dad was also in the hospital at this time visiting an old friend (I should probably have been suspicious at this stage that I would be receiving some bad news as why else would there be so many of my loved ones near by?).

When the Consultant explained that there were two types of Cancer (Invasive - Spread into the breast tissue and Non-Invasive - contained in the duct with no ability to spread) present in my breast I couldn't believe it.

He explained that I would need a wide local excision to remove the lumps and this would leave me with a slightly deformed breast and they would also need to remove some lymph nodes to check to see if the Cancer had spread.

I was to wait for a letter to confirm the operation date but that it should be soon.

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