Surgery Date

Sorry I haven't updated in a few days, but frankly there hasn't been any news to post. We do have an official surgery date of 6/16 (hard to believe it's only been a month).

Nicole will be having a lumpectomy with sentinel node biopsy. That means they'll take the tumor and some surrounding tissue. While they have her under anesthesia, they also take the first few lymph nodes in the chain and test them right in the OR. If the first few lymph nodes show cancer, they will remove up to a dozen more lymph nodes, as that's the typical process the cancer would take to spread.

The surgery is somewhat routine in the grand scheme of things, Nicole won't have to spend the night in the hospital and should be home by evening. Of course we're hopeful the lymph nodes are clean, but even if they're not we're going to be anxious to get this fight going soon after. Typically they will give her 3-4 weeks to heal, and then the treatment (chemo/radiation) begins.

Thank you all for the constant support and well wishes!