Went and saw Dr RW in her private rooms at Calvary. Private spaces sure are nicer than public!! :)
Asked whether they do pathology on lymph nodes during surgery, she said no, it takes a week or two. They will however do more xrays on what they chop out.
Told her we thought we'd be ok with doing just the lumpectomy. If they decide later that the margins are spread then we can think about doing a mastectomy.
As an aside. How stupid a word is "lumpectomy". Like, -ectomy is a nice Greek suffix meaning to cut something out. But then you have "lump" which they think is probably Old English. They really need a Greek origin word for lump. Just sayin.
She also gave me a package from Bosom Buddies which had some information, an arm pillow, a seatbelt pillow, a stress ball, and a bag for a drainage bag.
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