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Invasive ductile breast cancer: What should I expect?
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Jun 24, 2023 | Replies (57)Comment receiving replies
Oh yes. Day 2 after surgery I went for usual 2 mile walk, pumping arms (and paid for it), kept up with all housework - not that much in a 2 people old folks place, and also kept up the minimum and perhaps more of daily yard/garden stuff. I just simply thought that both breast swelling and extreme under arm tenderness would resolve it much, much, much faster. 8 weeks past I still have a slightly enlarged (but no more grotesque) lumpectomy boob, still halfway brownish discolored, and still a very very visible red scar from lymph node removal. I’m happy the boob shrunk, but re. scar - I’ve kept the breast cancer from my kids for now - no need to know - and I see no way to get together with fun pool times. Raising your arm is pretty much a given, and I don’t want the questions, panic, concern for now.
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Just adding: my kids and grandkids expect me to be the first to go off the diving board, take a “hold-your-breath” challenge, dive to bottom of 12’ diving pool (lying, my ears won’t do this any more). but generally, the under-arm mark would show. Thinking up excuses a lot.
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Take heart this will pass. I had a bunch of blue settle in my breast and turn me blue for months and months, my husband called me smurfette. Lol. Have you looked into any of the old lady swimsuits with the ruffle or flap over that area?