My wife's biopsy came back malignant earlier this week. She has a small cancer tumor in her right breast. I'm relatively sanguine about this, but she's pretty freaked out. MRI and a consult next Tuesday.
Oh wow. :c I sure hope everything will be okay! I can't blame her for freaking out, I would too. Cancer is the Big Scary.
I'm pretty calm about it because my family experience with cancer is my mother's bout with uterine cancer in the early 80s that went well--Mom's still with us--and my father's prostate cancer that was treated with essentially painless radiation a couple years ago. Her experience is her father's liver cancer that killed him hard.
Shite. That sucks, man. I hope the tumour can be shrunken down nicely and/or removed easily. My moirail is also going through cancer fuckery at the moment, and it can be tough for everybody involved. Sending you and your wife good vibes.
sorry to hear that. Hugs to you and your wife, and i hope that all goes as best as it can. by small, do you mean it was detected early?
Surgical consult earlier today. Gonna do a lumpectomy on 6-24, with radiation to follow for 3-6 weeks. No chemo is planned, but the tumor is hormone reactive, so induced menopause, here we come!
Small is about a centimeter and even when we were "insurance free", we kept up on annual mammograms, so it was an early detection.
Sort of disappointed we didn't get to look at the actual MRI images rotating like something out of a sci-fi movie. But the diagnosis was no sign of other tumors in the right or left breasts, so that was cool.
That is very cool! And also wow, not cool they should have done that. Why is life not like a sci-fi movie? I demand a refund.
Surgery today. I like surgeons. They have this awesome, "I am gonna cut into bodies and fix shit!" attitude. No nonsense about "healing" and "wellness". They're like super-skilled and educated auto mechanics. Anyway, surgery went well. The surgeon didn't see anything other than the actual tumor, but took out a fibroid lump just in case. Also two lymph nodes from the armpit for pathology testing. Pathology results should come back by Friday. That will determine whether there will be a long or a short course of radiation. Fun observation: They implanted a radioactive tracker bead to guide the surgery. While I did not watch the surgery, I got to see a technician bring in the Geiger counter they used for tracking. I swear to God that thing could have come out of a 1950s civil defense film. Same offset handle and external detector. It was a good day.
Fun Fact! The contrast enhancer they inject to help isolate the tumor will make your pee blue! Like, really toilet cleaner blue. Like, "Come in here, you have to see this!" blue.
