This morning I got up around 3:15 AM since I had to check into Margot Perot Day Surgery at 5:30 AM for a Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy. My last water was at 11:50 PM last night and my last food was around 7:30 PM last night. This is going to be a long day…the biopsy does not start until 1:30 PM. You’re probably wondering why I had come so early today. Before this procedure I had to go to nuclear medicine to get dye injected near the tumor to help my surgeon and pathology see possible cancer cells in the lymph nodes. Here is a link about this procedure. 
What’s next…
  • We will stay in the hotel at Presbyterian Dallas the night before the surgery on Thursday. That will give me an extra hour or so of sleep since I’ll just go downstairs to report for surgery.
  • Double-Mastectomy…what a big surgery. Praying for a swift recovery!

Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/diagnosis-staging/staging/sentinel-node-biopsy-fact-sheet