Tomorrow I go down for my last blood test/ check-up and final chemo on thursday. At each check-up they measure the tumour to see if it is shrinking. It has reduced slightly, but so far it is not under 5cm- which is the magic number we are aiming for.
At the beginning we were told there was a chance that the lump could be removed without a full mastectomy, but only if it shrank considerably. Last time I was disappointed to see it had not gone under 5 cm , but was told that it is now unlikely to contain any live cancer cells, and more likely to be just residual fibrous tissue, which is encouraging, but not encouraging enough, as I would still like to avoid a mastectomy if possible.
Our family prayer is that the surgeon gets to use an ice cream scoop and not a bacon slicer!!
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Hope today ( Thurs ) went better than you expected... continuing to pray for you.regularly. Praise God for your wonderful sense of humour.
I sent a BIG hug via Nigel- hope to got it!
Love Liz Sutcliffe x
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