Monday, August 14, 2006
Decisions, decisions
Just a quick update -- my biopsy results were normal as predicted by our cryptic phone message Friday afternoon. My next appointment will be Monday, August 21st with my local oncologist. Presumably that will set my chemo schedule, but we have a potential of meeting with doctors at Sloan Kettering in New York, reportedly the best with my particular kind of cancer. In order to meet with them I can't begin any treatments, so our decision on whether or not to meet with them is still a bit up in the air. Ideally they'd be willing to just look over my file and give us input, but who knows if that's something they'll do or not. I just hate to delay treatment another two weeks. We'll update you when we know more! Carpe diem - Trela
Sunday, August 13, 2006
A busy week
Wednesday we went to Mayo for a "routine" appointment, the initial exam and consult with the radiation oncologist, and an expansion. I think our stress levels would have been a lot different had the appointments been in the other order, because the expansion seems to have caused some redness and irritiation of the skin over the left breast. Since it is possible for angiosarcoma to present as a redness of the skin, we had to go back the next day for a biopsy.
Late Friday we got a message cryptically stating that we shouldn't worry over the weekend, but to call next week for detailed results from the biopsy. Good news I think, but sometimes HIPPA is very annoying.
So Friday was our 5th anniversary, and it just so happened that Kevin Cosner was at the Field of Dreams with his band and then a showing of the movie. Thinking that sounded like fun, we headed there immediately after work. Unfortunately for us, it seems that many other people had the same idea, and we arrived just moments too late to ride the shuttle from Beckman High. One of the parking attendants directed us to additional parking near the Field, so away we went. Faulty information. On the positive note, we did hear Cosner's band performing from the road while we sat for 40 minutes awaiting the bad news.
Instead of the movie, we decided to re-create our first date, so we went to Dubuque to House of China. We got a bottle of wine afterward and headed home, but were too tired to open it after the long day.
For now, we have an appointment in a week to get started with the chemotherapy. Trela starts school this week with some in-services, so she'll have a few days of work in before the chemo starts.
Carpe Diem.
Late Friday we got a message cryptically stating that we shouldn't worry over the weekend, but to call next week for detailed results from the biopsy. Good news I think, but sometimes HIPPA is very annoying.
So Friday was our 5th anniversary, and it just so happened that Kevin Cosner was at the Field of Dreams with his band and then a showing of the movie. Thinking that sounded like fun, we headed there immediately after work. Unfortunately for us, it seems that many other people had the same idea, and we arrived just moments too late to ride the shuttle from Beckman High. One of the parking attendants directed us to additional parking near the Field, so away we went. Faulty information. On the positive note, we did hear Cosner's band performing from the road while we sat for 40 minutes awaiting the bad news.
Instead of the movie, we decided to re-create our first date, so we went to Dubuque to House of China. We got a bottle of wine afterward and headed home, but were too tired to open it after the long day.
For now, we have an appointment in a week to get started with the chemotherapy. Trela starts school this week with some in-services, so she'll have a few days of work in before the chemo starts.
Carpe Diem.
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