Great News - Part 1 is done, and the cancer has not spread

Great news - at 1030AM, Dr. Guerra came out of surgery and told me that the sentinel lymph nodes have been examined, looked normal to the naked eye, and also came out clean in the screening biopsy!!!  Although they will perform the full biopsy anyway (we'll know the results of that later next week), all signs point to what we thought-stage 0 (non invasive) cancer.  So the mastectomy is done, Dr. Guerra is finished, and they're moving into the reconstructive phase.

Dr. Dickinson is now working his magic, and we'll probably know a little more about 4pm or so, with the surgery finishing about 6pm.

The anesthesiologist has called a few times with some updates, Anita is doing fine so far.