After some incredibly hot days and the awful news of bushfires in Victoria, NSW and Tasmania, it was lovely to have a cool one yesterday and a pleasant, bit warmer day today. Last week we travelled back to Ballarat for results of surgery and sentinel node biopsy. The BEST news is that the cancer cells haven't travelled, so given the all-clear there, and the only hiccup is that I have to go back next week for second surgery (in the same incision) to 'clean up' as pathology suggested that not all margins were clear.
I am ok with this as I want to make absolutely certain that it's all gone. Apart from having to go back to work this week I have been doing a fair bit of textile work, as much as I can manage most days with a couple of wounds still healing and causing pain. Speaking to a friend yesterday in the supermarket reminded me that to go through my particular breast cancer experience is to somehow have been given a ticket to explore the great unknown and to experience as much as possible. So if I have a New Year's resolution, part a is to leap off into the unknown, exciting world, part b is to advocate breastscreening for women 50+ and to remind younger women to be aware. Now all I need to do is to make something pink.
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