What a day Monday 22nd was, Philip drove me to St Georges at 6am, I got to admissions at 6.45am where the day was essentially:
- admissions to survey lounge
- surgery and day discussed with a surgeon and nurse
- Pre-Op checks with nurses and final details alongside stockings issue to stop DVT and clots
- numbed up 45 minutes before Nuclear Medicine
- Nuclear Medicine for 2 hours of scans, tests and 4 radioactive injections to locate sentinel nodes
- seen by an anaesthetist to discuss what's happening
- given surgery outfit
- revisited by my surgeon to check markings and discuss times of surgery
- 2pm surgeries undertaking comprising,
General anaesthetic
Wide Skin Excision on left forearm (surgery 1)
Sentinel Node Removal on left armpit (surgery 2)
Basal Cell Removal on left cheek of face & skin flap (surgery 3)
- was taken to a recovery ward at about 5pm so 1 hour per surgery
- given the usual post op updates and chats with a discharge time of 9pm aslong as the medical team were happy
- reached home at 10pm, thanks again the wonderful Husband Philip
Food, drink and a little sleep before I woke up & wrote this
More updates to follow as dates set already for;
- Face Wound checkup
- Biopsy staging results from Sentinel Nodes & Basal Cell
Just awaiting dates for an arm stick checkup.
Thanks to those of you who have donated and indeed read all of this post. Much love xx
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What a day Monday 22nd was, Philip drove me to St Georges at 6am, I got to admissions at 6.45am where the day was essentially:
- admissions to survey lounge
- surgery and day discussed with a surgeon and nurse
- Pre-Op checks with nurses and final details alongside stockings issue to stop DVT and clots
- numbed up 45 minutes before Nuclear Medicine
- Nuclear Medicine for 2 hours of scans, tests and 4 radioactive injections to locate sentinel nodes
- seen by an anaesthetist to discuss what's happening
- given surgery outfit
- revisited by my surgeon to check markings and discuss times of surgery
- 2pm surgeries undertaking comprising,
General anaesthetic
Wide Skin Excision on left forearm (surgery 1)
Sentinel Node Removal on left armpit (surgery 2)
Basal Cell Removal on left cheek of face & skin flap (surgery 3)
- was taken to a recovery ward at about 5pm so 1 hour per surgery
- given the usual post op updates and chats with a discharge time of 9pm aslong as the medical team were happy
- reached home at 10pm, thanks again the wonderful Husband Philip
Food, drink and a little sleep before I woke up & wrote this
More updates to follow as dates set already for;
- Face Wound checkup
- Biopsy staging results from Sentinel Nodes & Basal Cell
Just awaiting dates for an arm stick checkup.
Thanks to those of you who have donated and indeed read all of this post. Much love xx