Day 30 (Thursday 10 October 1.30a): Quick surgery recap

I finally had my surgery about 7pm last night so I am perfectly drugged up on pain-killers at the moment. The surgery went into OT for 30 mins from the initial estimate of 1.5 hours becaure Dr Andrew had to do an axillary lymph node biopsy. Based on my understanding that means cancerous cells were evident in my sentinel node. When I asked the recovery room nurse  "Was it only a sentinel  biopsy?" and she told me that more were removed, the tears flowed (as did the expletives). That was not the result I was hoping to hear. Dr Andrew will come later today to brief me, so for now I will go back to my patient-controlled pain meds (I just push the button) and try to rest.