After meeting with two surgeons today, the decision was made for Patty to have surgery next Wednesday, February 24th. Her options were full mastectomy or segmented mastectomy (which is actually a dual lumpectomy). We elected the dual lumpectomy because the survival rates are the same as full mastectomy. The present plan calls for the removal of two tumors in different areas of the same breast and a third area under the armpit where the lymph nodes are located. Even though the tumors are small, they will remove a golf ball size mass from each area as a precaution. The number of lymph nodes affected will not be known until the actual surgery. The infected lymph nodes will be removed. Because the cancer cells in one of the tumors is consider to be the invasive and aggressive type we are probably looking at full chemo followed by full radiation treatments. The final determination will be made 2 or 3 days after surgery when the pathology report is issued by the oncologist. The surgery will be performed Dr. Beverly Talbert at Mercy Hospital at approximately 2 o'clock with preliminaries beginning at 8 o'clock. If all goes well we should be home by 9 p.m. Keep those prayers coming. Thanks .
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Patty - and back to work on Thursday? You are always in our thoughts and prayers, but we'll be thinking of you even more on Wednesday. Jayden says that this is your way of getting into the "dress." We love you, the Bolton/Chapman catastrophe
Patty, to think you would go home that night! Whew...sounds emotionally exhausting to me, and maybe you'll need the night in the hospital just to rest? But then again, maybe you'd get more rest at home. I am sorry I haven't called...my mornings have been busy and now I read you are having surgery so soon. I'll keep praying for you and be in touch late in the week, early following. Hugs and more.
elizabeth branham
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