The author shares her experience with breast cancer surgery and the realization that she may have been misinformed about the procedure.
I don't think I stopped shaking in anger for days. I became obsessed with understanding and solving this mystery. How did this happen to me? I like to tease my friend Aimee about her oddly formal emails, so I clicked her name in my inbox with anticipation. This time, she wrote: “I hope spring break treated you and your family well! It seems that I have been diagnosed with breast cancer , too. If possible, I would love to chat with you in the coming week.
” I called her right away, phone to my ear as I jogged down to the elementary school to pick up my son. I had just been through three surgeries, including the removal of my breasts, my uterus, my ovaries, and my dignity. I felt scraped and gutted, still confused by this new reality. At that time, I was a year into my journey, finally gaining some distance and wisdom. Aimee, only 38 years old, told me she had discovered the lump while nursing her newborn infant. As she talked, I stood apart from the other parents, on the phone calculating how we could arrange her meal train and her doctors. I waved to my son. “I guess they are in the process of scheduling my SLNB, whatever that is?” she said, and my arm dropped. I felt slick with sweat. My breast surgeon is an older man, kind and experienced, and he was excited to tell me about the procedure. He is proud to offer this minimally invasive option, because in the past, surgeons removed all the lymph nodes as a precautionary measure, which left many women with severe disabilities. Instead, an SLNB offers the possibility to remove only 1-3 nodes to examine. He explained that prior to my surgery, I would receive injections of blue radiotracer injections through my nipple, which would travel through the ducts, up into my armpit, and stain the sentinel lymph nodes, where breast cancer typically travels firs
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