@sue417
I had my initial lumpectomy, then had the SNB surgery where they inject the dye and see which nodes light up. I had 2 nodes removed and luckily both were negative.
I ended up have to go back and have a 3rd surgery because my margins weren’t clear enough after the first surgery. That was done about a month after the SNB surgery and “no residual carcinoma was found.”
Once I healed from the surgeries, I started 4 weeks of radiation (5 days per week) for a total of 20 treatments.
And now I am going on my 2nd month of taking Tamoxifen. I follow up with my Oncologist every 3 months for bloodwork and will alternate mammo and MRI every 6 months.