Surprises

So I guess one of the main gifts I will get from my cancer is learning to be flexible. This is something I have been working on but still plagues me a bit both at home and in work. I'm a planner; and I'm good at it. If everything would just go as planned, well then all would be well. As we know however things rarely go as planned -- better to think of plans as framework or the structure of something not yet discovered -- allowing enough space in your plan and in your head and sometimes your heart for variations on a general theme or a completely different outcome from your launchpad of an idea. Learning to think this way; feel this way; live this way I can only imagine will make me better, freer, less stressed but perhaps just as crazy.

Good news!! According to the post surgical pathology, they seem to have excised the tumor in its entirety. [yah I know, you didn't really consider that sometimes they don't, and have to go back in for additional surgery-- a little nugget I refused to really acknowledge ]

Good news!! No lymph node involvement!

There seems to be some confusion / differing opinions / miscommunication -- or maybe just a change in plans regarding what happens next... So my oncologists nurse is going to talk with my oncologist on Thursday and then talk with my surgeon's nurse... And then hopefully we will resolve the following questions:

1. Is the oncotype test still going to be done? Will it provide any additional info at this point which will effect suggested treatment?

2. Is chemo still suggested by Dr. Naughton, now that we have negative genetic mutation, negative lymph nodes, and clear margins on the tumor?

3. If it is, when do we get started?

4. Can my follow up to surgery and the first chemo appt take place in the same trip to st. Louis?

For now I have a follow up appt. in St. Louis for the 23rd, until we can resolve all the above.

And so we wait...

 

 

 

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