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Donna and GC and I met with the surgeon bright and early this morning. In a fairly short amount of time she put a whack of information on the table and all three of us sat there like sponges, trying to absorb it as fast as she could pour it out. She’s going to wait […] My surgeon called me last night and verified what her secretary had told me – there is no evidence the cancer had spread, based on my imaging tests. I breathed the rest of that big old sigh of relief. She also told me that they’re now booking surgeries into July, but she is going […] I’ve been given some tentative good news with respect to all the test results I’ve been waiting for – the bone scan, the chest x-ray, and the abdominal ultrasound all seem to be okay, according to someone who was kind enough to look them up for me. She cautioned me that she’s not a doctor […] I’m having that ultrasound tomorrow morning, and hopefully it will show that the MRI was hallucinating when it saw an area of “enhancement.” Hopefully everything will go back to the best case scenario that was presented a few weeks ago: one small tumor, a plan for its surgical excision, five weeks of radiation, and then […] It’s the waiting. The layers and layers of waiting. Every single thing in this cancer experience involves waiting. Sitting in big waiting rooms that lead to smaller waiting rooms that lead to machinery and tests that lead to seven to ten working days until the doctor gets the results, that lead to appointments that later […] Cancer sucks, there’s no question about it. But I have been deeply moved by the genuine outpouring of affection and concern from so many people – family, friends, strangers, and others – since I got diagnosed a few weeks ago. There hasn’t been a day that’s gone by that I haven’t felt deeply grateful […] I got a call yesterday from someone wanting to schedule an ultrasound of my breast. I was sure there had to be some kind of misunderstanding, since I already had an ultrasound of my breast last month, but no, there was no misunderstanding. My cancer surgeon, Dr. Arnaout, ordered another ultrasound after seeing the results […] There was a day – a single specific day – on which I got cancer. I don’t know what day it was, except it was probably about four or five years ago because that’s how long it takes breast cancer to grow from a single mutated cell into a discoverable lump. Four or five years […] I had the MRI last night at the Civic Hospital around 10:00. Did you know they have MRIs scheduled round the clock? Fortunately, Donna Lee had left a comment giving me some idea of what to expect – ie, lying on my stomach with my breasts dangling through two holes in the table. Otherwise, when […] Wednesday I get started on the diagnostic imaging. At 7:30 in the morning they’re going to do an abdominal ultrasound to see if there’s any spread of the cancer to my liver. After that, they’ll do a chest x-ray to see if there’s any cancer in my lungs. On Thursday morning I go to the hospital […] |
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