After that appointment, my mom and I met with my oncologist and she went over my protocol again and discussed how I might feel through it all, tired, worn out and yet some good days between each treatment. She agrees that we need to wait until at least Next Friday to get Chemo rolling so I can get a release from the plastic surgeon this coming Monday. She had wanted to start me this coming Monday, but with this incision needing to heal a bit longer that would possibly put us at Friday the 28th for starting chemo.
We left there in good spirits only to get a call a few hours later from my breast surgeons office saying the oncologist and plastic surgeon wanted me to come back in to check my underarm lymph incision for fluid build up (seroma?). Skip forward to today, my breast surgeon examined me and by ultrasound did find a pocket of fluid built up just above the lymph node incision. So she said she wanted to drain it and that was we have a better chance at getting chemo started next week.
Breast surgeon proceeded to numb me up and aspirated close to 20 cc's of fluid from that spot. She said this can happen again so to keep an eye on tightness over the next few days. She agrees that the opening in the incision will close up soon, but to keep an eye on it. She also noticed I had a part of a self desolving stitch sticking out of my port incision so she clipped that out.
So we are making progress even with some hiccups. We will take the good and thankfully mostly fixed the bad today.
Staying positive knowing I have a great team keeping a close eye on me.
I did find out my case is being reviewed again by the whole oncology board Monday so I am feeling good and that the onc. Is looking at every aspect in prep to an aggressive and hopeful positive chemo outcome in the next few months.
Time to dye the hair again soon then prep to shave it all off soon.
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