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May. 16th, 2015 11:12 amThe cab to the Cancer Center cost $10 and took half an hour to arrive. Fortunately, I'd allowed an hour, so I still had some time before my appointment. As it turned out there was paperwork for me to fill out. They said it was in the packet they sent me, but it wasn't. There were only three sheets in the packet, and the paperwork they gave me ran about ten pages.
The doctor I saw did in fact find the lump, but she told me that the only options we had were immediate surgery to remove it or waiting six months to see if anything changes. She couldn't biopsy it because it doesn't show up on ultrasound. Without ultrasound, she couldn't be sure she was sticking the needle in the right place and wouldn't be able to trust the results. She did say that it was entirely possible that the thing is healthy tissue. Apparently, breasts get lumpy as a woman ages and the tissues change.
She was extraordinarily neutral on the subject of surgery. My impression was that she favored the wait and see approach, but she never said that. I couldn't point to anything that gave me that impression, but it is the impression I got. Perhaps it that, if she favored surgery, she'd have made a stronger case for it as opposed to simply saying that it was, in fact, an option.
I have opted to wait. In November, I'll have another mammogram and ultrasound and then see her again right after. We'll see then if anything's changed. Unfortunately, that appointment is the day before Cordelia's next dental appointment. I'd rather not deal with going out two days in a row, but I'm not sure I want to reschedule anything.
The cab home took over 45 minutes to arrive. I actually called the cab company a second time to make sure they hadn't forgotten me. I'm very glad the weather was good (it was nearly 70F) or I'd have frozen. There was a place to sit, so I did. Unfortunately, it was low enough that I bruised my thigh on the top of my boot in the process of sitting down.
Cordelia did fine during her hour at home alone. Hopefully she'll be willing to do it again. I'm pretty sure, for example, that she won't want to come along for my dental appointment in July, and the mammogram and such in November will run until at least 4:00.
Scott did the grocery shopping on the way home from work, so we have food. Cordelia's been eating cereal mixed with yogurt for her breakfasts, so Scott bought quite a bit of yogurt.
This afternoon, I shall try to bake a cake for Cordelia. I'm pretty sure I can do it. I can definitely stand for ten to fifteen minutes, and that should be all it takes. I still haven't heard from Scott's sister as to whether or not our niece is coming, but we have five other girls coming. Cordelia doesn't want us to refer to it as a 'party.' She says we should call it a 'hang out.'
I had some moments of panic last night-- I downloaded a Flash update, and when I restarted Safari, everything was well and truly borked. I use Safari pretty much exclusively for Google related stuff, and all the Google windows I opened were just jumbled blocks of zigzag patterns and confetti. Firefox was fine, fortunately. Eventually, I restarted my laptop entirely, and that seems to have fixed the problem, but I was very worried that I wouldn't be able to do my
metanews work next week. That really works best with two webbrowsers.
Speaking of
metanews, one of the new volunteers has said that they want to take on LJ and AO3. I sent them a fairly long message yesterday that detailed how to link find in each place and what to do with the links once they've been found. Hopefully, I wasn't too confusing and didn't forget anything important. I'm also hoping they will start link finding this week.
The doctor I saw did in fact find the lump, but she told me that the only options we had were immediate surgery to remove it or waiting six months to see if anything changes. She couldn't biopsy it because it doesn't show up on ultrasound. Without ultrasound, she couldn't be sure she was sticking the needle in the right place and wouldn't be able to trust the results. She did say that it was entirely possible that the thing is healthy tissue. Apparently, breasts get lumpy as a woman ages and the tissues change.
She was extraordinarily neutral on the subject of surgery. My impression was that she favored the wait and see approach, but she never said that. I couldn't point to anything that gave me that impression, but it is the impression I got. Perhaps it that, if she favored surgery, she'd have made a stronger case for it as opposed to simply saying that it was, in fact, an option.
I have opted to wait. In November, I'll have another mammogram and ultrasound and then see her again right after. We'll see then if anything's changed. Unfortunately, that appointment is the day before Cordelia's next dental appointment. I'd rather not deal with going out two days in a row, but I'm not sure I want to reschedule anything.
The cab home took over 45 minutes to arrive. I actually called the cab company a second time to make sure they hadn't forgotten me. I'm very glad the weather was good (it was nearly 70F) or I'd have frozen. There was a place to sit, so I did. Unfortunately, it was low enough that I bruised my thigh on the top of my boot in the process of sitting down.
Cordelia did fine during her hour at home alone. Hopefully she'll be willing to do it again. I'm pretty sure, for example, that she won't want to come along for my dental appointment in July, and the mammogram and such in November will run until at least 4:00.
Scott did the grocery shopping on the way home from work, so we have food. Cordelia's been eating cereal mixed with yogurt for her breakfasts, so Scott bought quite a bit of yogurt.
This afternoon, I shall try to bake a cake for Cordelia. I'm pretty sure I can do it. I can definitely stand for ten to fifteen minutes, and that should be all it takes. I still haven't heard from Scott's sister as to whether or not our niece is coming, but we have five other girls coming. Cordelia doesn't want us to refer to it as a 'party.' She says we should call it a 'hang out.'
I had some moments of panic last night-- I downloaded a Flash update, and when I restarted Safari, everything was well and truly borked. I use Safari pretty much exclusively for Google related stuff, and all the Google windows I opened were just jumbled blocks of zigzag patterns and confetti. Firefox was fine, fortunately. Eventually, I restarted my laptop entirely, and that seems to have fixed the problem, but I was very worried that I wouldn't be able to do my
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