[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Pyramid*

I'm not sure what you want here Vicky: I don't think your mum was correct is asking for what she asked for. Regardless of the size of the tissue affected: it had to be removed, irrespective of the difference in operation required. would she have preferred they lied to her and pretended it was only a tiny piece of surgery, tiny piece of tissue: or would she have preferred that they were honest in stating that the size of affected tissue was much larger, and would require far more surgery than first anticipated??

OK I think we might have crossed wires here somewhere going on this bit. She has no problem at all with the full breast being removed. Although it does annoy her a little bit that they got it so wrong and she ended up having to have 3 ops rather than just the one, but she has accepted that they make mistakes sometimes.

But she wants her other breast removed also, although at the moment, there is no cancer in that one but she was told there was quite a risk of it returning in said healthy breast. She was told that after she had the op to remove the 'bad' breast, after recovering, she would be able to have the 'healthy' one removed also but they have gone back on their word now. This is the issue, not the mistakes they made in the original diagnosis.