Visit To The Surgeon

11th November 2009
An appointment had been made with another surgeon to perform the operation as my initial surgeon was going to be away for three months. We met Burton King on Wednesday afternoon.  He also was astounded that I had actually found the dimpling myself. The specialists nurse informed me that my staging tests had all come back clear so that was a huge relief.  Burton did another ultrasound on the breast.  What they originally thought was a 6mm mass now was showing up as either two masses or one larger one of 3cm.  My stomach churned.  I asked him if that meant that it was more serious.  He replied that it meant that it was more serious in the fact that my breast couldn't be saved with a lumpectomy and that I would have to have the whole breast off.  He looked at me expecting me to be shocked and upset but I had already resigned myself to the fact that this may happen. He also said that with the removal of the breast and chemo and radiation he is confident of a cure.  He did an ultrasound of the other breast and seemed to think that it was all clear but the MRI would be done to make sure.  Talk about a waiting game!