(post script: the all-caps was not me being dramatic. the report actually came typed in this font.)
(p.s.s.: onc turned the phrase, "we are back at ground zero" me: "you mean like deja vu all over again?" onc, "YES, exactly")
Showing posts with label axillary biopsy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label axillary biopsy. Show all posts
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Running Out of Wiggle Room?
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METASTATIC INVASIVE LOBULAR CARCINOMA TO LYMPH NODE...lab report of July 21, 2011, courtesy of Pinnacle Pathology.
(post script: the all-caps was not me being dramatic. the report actually came typed in this font.)
(p.s.s.: onc turned the phrase, "we are back at ground zero" me: "you mean like deja vu all over again?" onc, "YES, exactly")
(post script: the all-caps was not me being dramatic. the report actually came typed in this font.)
(p.s.s.: onc turned the phrase, "we are back at ground zero" me: "you mean like deja vu all over again?" onc, "YES, exactly")
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Expanding my vocabulary
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I learned a new word today: METS and it does not pertain to the team in NY.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Deja Vu Calling...
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The requested blah blah blah biopsy is/was for a CT-Guided Biopsy. Apparently, it is difficult to biopsy axillary nodes with a CT-Guided assist. So, now it is a go for an ultrasound guided biopsy. T-minus 15 hours and counting.
Onc showed and earned some true colors. Onc was uncomfortable with the Confident Arrogant Prick's statements to me [refer back to blog entry dated July 8]. Yes, I did share CAP's comments with her, via her sentinels. I wanted to make sure there wasn't an alternative to "being a bleeder." Onc called me personally, after-hours...no less. She wanted to confirm CAP's comments and share her alarm with me. She also called the next day after she consulted with a radiologist on her preference list - who was equally appalled, reportedly.
Upshot, I am scheduled with Preferred Radiologist for the ultrasound guided biopsy. I will miss CAP's Nurse Christy, however. She was after all, a damn good Certified Breast Patient Navigator in Breast Imaging and Cancer Care! (No kidding, it said so on the wall certificates at the imaging center.)
It has crossed my mind to ask why I did not get referred to PR initially, but deja vu is a tough enough beast to contend with without me always asking the obvious.
Onc showed and earned some true colors. Onc was uncomfortable with the Confident Arrogant Prick's statements to me [refer back to blog entry dated July 8]. Yes, I did share CAP's comments with her, via her sentinels. I wanted to make sure there wasn't an alternative to "being a bleeder." Onc called me personally, after-hours...no less. She wanted to confirm CAP's comments and share her alarm with me. She also called the next day after she consulted with a radiologist on her preference list - who was equally appalled, reportedly.
Upshot, I am scheduled with Preferred Radiologist for the ultrasound guided biopsy. I will miss CAP's Nurse Christy, however. She was after all, a damn good Certified Breast Patient Navigator in Breast Imaging and Cancer Care! (No kidding, it said so on the wall certificates at the imaging center.)
It has crossed my mind to ask why I did not get referred to PR initially, but deja vu is a tough enough beast to contend with without me always asking the obvious.
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