doydie,

i'm sorry about your sister's dx.
i was just dx'd with an aggressive breast CA but it was non-invasive.
i am just recovering from bilateral lumpectomies.
just to let you know that tx today is excellent.

i start radiation soon but the surgery went well and my recovery is going well too.

i'll send prayers to your sister for her full recovery and to you that the mammogram will be fine.

i know what you are going thru.

I had my repeat mammogram today. They do things different now than several years ago when I had to have a repeat. They have this little wand looking like thing that they hook up to the machine then they line it up over the suspicious area and just squash with that little thing. So the area on the left breast was just a glitch on the film. But they needed to explore the right one some more so they sent me over for an ultrasound. So I have two cute little cysts. They are almost together as one and kind of looked like a rubber ducky or a whale. So I just told the US tech that I would give it a name and welcome it to the family . So after one of my favorite characters on NCIS I have named my cyst Ducky. I hope Ducky never grows and gets uncomfortable. So I will see him a year from now.

Doydie,

My cousin and my best friends sister have both gone through breast cancer and they are doing very well now. It is rough going through chemo but they have won the fight. My cousin has beat breast cancer twice now.

I am praying that your sister will beat it also.

doydie I am happy at your results, you have enough to worry about, my prayers are with you and your sister and your familys,glad you are ok

Ah Ducky! Suck a cute little name.

I hope they stay the same too.

I also hope all goes well for your sister.

Good news, Doydie...thanks for letting us know..

Prayers continuing for Sis.

How is your sister doing? Her surgery is in a couple of days.

How are you doing?

Thanks for asking. Her surgery is scheduled Tuesday at 2. She was 'OK' until the plastic surgeon marked all the lines on her chest where he will be cutting and it brought it all down to earth. I am just glad they are doing the reconstruction so that she can stay in the hospital more than 1 day! In my days of nurses training a mastectomy patient was kept in ICU overnight. Now they go home the next day!

Surgery is over, took about 4 hours then she was in recovery for about 3 hours so it went longer than we thought. But so far everything is OK. Pathologist will have to look at everything to see where she stands as far as lymph node involvement and prognosis. She has the temporary breast implants/tissue expanders in now and will have to have another surgery with general anesthetic to remove those and put the real implants in.

I can't believe they are planning on sending her home tomorrow. Her husband says his hours are flexible enough that he can stay with her for a couple of days. I just can't do it. She and I pretty well split up all of my Moms chores. She does the laundry and I do the grocery shopping and we split op the doctors appointments. She doesn't have a lot of laundry or grocery needs since the retirment complex does all linens and all meals are provided but she still has basic needs and she doesn't like to get up early enough to get dressed for breakfast. But I will be her everything for I know a month. I'm already tired.

Sorry doydie i have been away a couple days, glad her surgery went well, praying the prognosis and the outcome will be a positive ones, I know you have a lot to do but make sure not to over do it so bad, that your MS does its thing. for support and a for the heck of it