The last post I put on Facebook I got some comments about needing a superwoman cloak, but I think that my three kids deserve little superhero kid capes for going through what they did to see their mum sick and wonder if I'll get through when we couldn't make them any promises. They toughed it out as did John, my family and friends. I know many were being brave for me.
So what's been happening! I took myself off to my gyno - he was finding it difficult to understand why I needed to take my ovaries out. I tried to explain it all to him. Anyway he's worried it's an unnecessary operation, but oncology want my body to stop producing estrogen. Anyway what I thought might be day surgery, and key hole surgery and at worst an overnight stay and a few days off work - he warns me that it may not be that simple! After 3 c-sections and an abdominal repair he doesn't know until he gets in there whether he'll have clear access to them. It could be abdominal surgery with up to 6 weeks off work. Damn - is nothing simple or straightforward?
Some good news is my seroma may be gone. No fluid to drain for the first time in 11 weeks!!! I high fived my plastic surgeon. He's such a glory dog. My physio taped up the seroma area trying to encourage the fluid to drain to major lymph nodes, my ps saw it and suggested that she was trying to take the credit for the fluid draining. The main thing is that it has resolved for now anyway. 1 appointment off my list each week.
So now I'm booked in to see an oncology gyno who can perhaps advise me a little better, no more Zoladex implants for me since the allergic reaction, so might delay surgery and use the lesser hormone blocker, tamoxifen for 6 months then get ovaries out in the new year and have the aromatase inhibitor then. We'll see. I have an appointment to see oncology tomorrow, not sure how happy they'll be with my news about Zoladex.
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