First Post-Op Visit to Specialist

I had my first post-op visit with the  breast specialist who performed the mastectomy today.  I was a bit nervous as the pathologist results would be explained to me.  They thought originally that it was three smaller sized tumors but on investigation it was one complete 4.5 cm mass with 3 peaks.  It had been growing for about 3-4 years and I had felt nothing different.....scarey eh?  Lots of good things came out of today. One was that it wasn't close to my chest wall as first thought and secondly because of that reason and because all 13 lymph nodes were clear it means that I don't have to have radiation. I'm pretty pleased about that because I wasn't sure how I was going to handle going to work and going into Wellington Hospital every day for 5 weeks.  It would have been pretty tiring.  I do still have to have chemo but only 4 treatments once every three weeks and yes, I will unfortunately be a baldy.  Without having the radiation, it means I will get my new body quicker too.  The one annoying thing is though, they didn't do the reconstruction straight away because it would get ruined with the radiation. So because I don't need radiation now, I could have had it done all at the same time.  Never mind!