I think I have found myself at a place called "information overload."

Surgery is fast approching and difficult to face. Friday is almost here...and I'm scared...and in a way, happy. Happy of course that the tumors will be gone. Scared, of course... of a lot of things. But I am gong in positive and strong....and I will be Great! I appreciate all of you reading, listening and responding to me. There are so many factors contributing to the recommendation that both the surgeon and oncologist gave but bottom line is I will be having a bilateral masectomy with reconstruction. That means both girls are coming off and tissue expanders are going in to stretch the muscle and skin for implants at a later date. While I am in surgery they will be doing a sentinel lymph node biopsy procedure to determine if the cancer has spread to the lymph nodes. With this procedure the surgeon injects a blue dye or radioactive fluid into the area where the cancerous tumor is located. The die/radioactive fluid will naturally move through the breast. The surgeon will then follow the trail and remove the first, or sentinel, lymph node where the fluid first drains from the breast and biopsy it. He will continue to do this to remove the nodes that have cancer.