It went well today. Lots of anti nausea drugs and voila! No nausea!
They used ultrasound to place a radioactive "seed":
This information explains your breast seed localization procedure at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK).
Breast seed localization is a procedure in which a tiny metal seed, about the size of a small sesame seed, is placed into abnormal breast tissue. The implanted seed contains a small amount of radiation. This helps your surgeon find the area of abnormal tissue during surgery when it is too small to be seen or felt by hand. The seed will stay in your body until it is taken out during your surgery.
Then they started the IV and got me ready for surgery. The IV placed in my hand blew up on the way to the surgery suite and I had a lump of fluid on my wrist. They tried another vein in my hand and one on my inner forearm, no luck. They ended up using my port. Dr always asks what kind of music I want to listen to in surgery. My sis-in-law said 80s rock so that's what I got! Men Without Hats Safety Dance and Joan Jett I Love Rock n Roll. Sweet! Then...
Oxygen mask on, drugs in, off to lala land.
Incision is about 2 inches long and I have another JP drain. This drain I'm allowed to take out myself because Dr know it won't bother me to do so and its not very long.
No pain yet. Dr put a numbing blocker in there that is/was supposed to last for 8 hours.
More later...
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