Your unstinting positive energy is doing a fine job of winning out. CLEAR LYMPH NODES! I am so happy. The frozen sections of the sentinel node are clear, which makes it a 95 percent chance that the cancer hasn't spread. They took sections from three axillary lymph nodes which are being biopsied in a lab so they can make it 100 percent sure. Because the SLN was clear I didn't have to go home with a tube for drainage, which would have been very demoralizing.

MARGINS: Won't know if the margins are clear until the pathology lab processes the tumor. If the margins are clear then I can avoid another surgery. If the margins are not clear then here we go again. I should have that info middle of next week.

When we got home from the hospital at about 5:30 I tried to eat some avocado, and I slept, and I got up and tried to eat again but I literally could not keep my eyes open. I mean, I was falling asleep in mid-chew.

Today I am much better. I have two incisions. The one on my breast is no big deal. The one under my armpit is a royal BITCH. And there is numbness and weakness in my right hand. Like I can't hold a glass or a comb or a toothbrush. Silver lining is I get to practice being ambidextrous, Just got back from a post-op with Dr. K and he thinks the numbness will go away, that its from the positioning of my arm during surgery. I got a prescrip for antibiotics too.

I rescheduled my appointment at MD Anderson for May 6 so I will have path lab reports to bring with me. Now I can just hang out and heal and get waited on like Princess Nephratata.

I can't thank you enough for the cards and calls and everything else you have done to make my life easier and to show me that you care. Keep up the Clean Margins mantra, and I will keep CHARGING down the road to recovery.