A quick update to blog followers to let you know that Lorraine's surgery is going well. She was late into surgery, and is now into the second phase, conducted by the plastic surgeon. The general surgeon has been by to say that his phase - the mastectomy - went fine, and also that the sentinel node biopsy, which tests whether the cancer has spread outside the breast, was negative. That's really excellent news. It was very unlikely that the biopsy would be positive, but then it was very unlikely that Lorraine would contract breast cancer, so there was a nagging worry.
She has probably another hour or so in surgery, after which the surgeons will let me know how things went. I'll post another update then. She then spends an hour so in recovery, and if she comes out of the anaesthetic well, I'll get to see her then.
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