Hi Minnie 

sorry you sound all over the place my heart goes out to you .

firstly try and take things one step at a time lovely .ypu will manage and cope everyone does it's just a panick of the unknown and once operation is done you will be thinking why did I worry so much . The only difference is you can't drive or lift anything heavy .

wny are they taking lymph nodes away at a different hospital at a different time to your operation .

this normally happens the same time they take a biopsy of sentil nodes it's not a seperate operation if they are positive for cancer they then do another operstion to remove all lymph nodes , at a later date but the sentil nodes have to be positive before they do this lovely .

Did they tell you which cancer it os and what grade ect ? 
pne Lara 

Hi Lara

Because they'll be using tissue from my abdomen, they'll be attaching it to blood vessels in my armpit, so they won't be able to go back there to remove the remaining lymph nodes if they're positive. 
 

The plastics team that does the reconstruction using my tissue is at a different, bigger hospital. My breast surgery consultant will work with the plastics team and they'll still do the mastectomy and reconstruction in one operation. She'll travel to the other hospital. 
 

Hi Minnie Mouse,

This is a lot to take in, but I well remember feeling that my life had been totally taken over at your stage. Everything happens so quickly and plans often change like the weather. It sounds as if your consultant has everything in hand. Laraj is right, try to deal with one thing at a time and you will eventually get there.

I shall be thinking of you tomorrow and hope that all goes well.

Kind regards,

Jolamine xx