Jessica's Breast Cancer Blog

Hi everyone. This is Jessica's husband, Dan.

I wanted to let you know that Jessica's surgery has been moved up to 8:00 AM tomorrow (Friday, 2/19/10). As Jessica, metioned before, she and the surgeon have opted for a lumpectomy vesus a mastectomy. The lumpectomy is relatively straightforward outpatient procedure and the impact in terms of hospital stay and recovery period is far less severe when compared to the mastectomy plus reconstruction that we had previously been looking at.

They are estimating that the operation itself will take roughly 90 minutes. The procedure will require general anesthesia, with Jessica being cleared to go home fairly quickly once she has woken up and is is feeling back to sorts... possibly as early as lunchtime should everything go well.

I will be posting updates on Jessica's behalf to this blog during her surgery and recovery tomorrow. I will try to get updates posted here as quickly as possible as information comes in (after I relay it to direct family first, of course).