Sarah woke about 16:00 in some pain. They gave her two different drugs over the next two hours to address it. Her care nurse spent quite a lot of time with me and later at about 18:00 with Sarah… Read more →

Apart from the other news all seems to have gone to plan. There were two sentinel nodes they removed to start with. They tested the one that was large and it had the cancer. The smaller (normal?) one… Read more →

Sarah's care nurse just called me to share the bad news that the first lymph node in the ladder is positive for cancer. This means she will have a block of tissue removed around this node which will… Read more →

Her op is planned for this morning and I'm hoping she'll be awake and I'll be able to see her later. I'm going to take the children along tomorrow afternoon after their clubs and homework. Not sure… Read more →

Surgery confirmed for this Friday. She will be at the Princess Grace in central London. Operation in the morning should be awake and vistable (is that a word?) in the afternoon. Depending on how well… Read more →

No cancer detected anywhere else. Phew.

As previously I'm not going to say who but happy to share if you ever want to know. In a nutshell this guy was a little bit clinical. Neither of us warmed to him. On the plus side he yet again… Read more →

We visit a private consultant who speciality is breast cancer surgery. Won't say here who but if you ever need to know then get in touch. He's very reassuring and confirms what the NHS said… Read more →

We return to St. George's to hear how bad it is. Relatively speaking we get good news. The tumour is about 2cm, there's no sign it's spread to the lymph nodes. It's not hormone receptive - which is… Read more →

A few scans and some samples taken. Very quickly Sarah is told that it's cancer. Obvious signs of calcification in the milk ducts and "that lump" clear from the pictures she's shown. Now we're… Read more →

Implication being the lump being untethered that it's nothing to worry about. Referred to St. George's which is normal these days for any abnormality.

It's safe to say if we didn't already know of people with breast cancer we might not have been so swift to act. Now we know more about breast cancer we realise just how common it is. If you find a… Read more →

My thought is to document what's going on and how Sarah feels physically and perhaps emotionally. This is not going to be some gushing blog with erudite prose and musing on life the meaning and… Read more →