A successful recovery and bright future
Reimer returned home the same day as her procedure, and by the following weekend, she was able to ride five hours in a car to her son’s college football game.
“I know if I had gone through open surgery, I wouldn’t have made it to any of my son’s remaining games this past fall,” Reimer says. “I was even back to work in three weeks.”
A few weeks after the sentinel node biopsy, genetic testing of her removed lymph nodes and her hysterectomy, Reimer received the news she’d been hoping for: The mole on her leg and the masses on her ovaries were not cancerous. Since the atypical cells that made up her mole also were found in her removed lymph nodes, she will be followed closely by Nair over the next few years. However, she will not need any follow-up care with Thomas now that she has healed from her hysterectomy.
“I cannot begin to describe how amazing my care team was, both in caring for me clinically and supporting me emotionally,” Reimer says. “I couldn’t have asked for a better experience, and I cannot recommend the Cancer Institute enough for anyone facing something similar.”