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Surgery

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I went through Axillary Dissection to remove the cancer cells under my armpit.   Doc removed 30 lymph nodes and 27 were cancerous.   I checked in the hospital on 1 May (labour day!), and surgery was the next day. The surgery took around 5 hours and I woke up with a bag hanging our of my wound to drain the blood.  I had to live with the bag for a week.   Discharged from the hospital after week, rested back home for a month.   I have to exercise my arm daily, and have to be extra careful forever as arm can develop "lymphoedema" anytime as my lymph nodes have been cleared.