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Skriven 2011-06-25 16:58:39 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 12580 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
Ärende: surgery
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Hi Hap,

-> One of the nurses saw me out on Tybee Island (We'd gone with some
-> friends for a picnic and dominoes game.) and told me "I'm going to tell
-> Dr. P that you were here!" We had a good laugh over it; she told him in
-> my presence the next time I saw him. His attitude was "good, glad you're
-> having fun".

 hn> So far everyone we have dealt with
 hn> during this has been superb. We could
 hn> not ask for a better team.

That is so good! You will appreciate their support more and more as
treatment progresses.

-> OK, I'm a bit behind so I might see the update later in this packet.

 hn> Have not made a report before now. We
 hn> had the meeting Tuesday with the surgeon.
 hn> He was happy, the lymph nodes were clear,
 hn> no sign of any cancer. the tissue margins were
 hn> also clear and he was cautiously optimistic that
 hn> he had gotten all of it. The one "fly in the
 hn> ointment" was the pathology report...the
 hn> pathologist only commented on a single mass
 hn> being examined. We were sure  that there
 hn> were two masses, and biopsies were taken of
 hn> both of them and markers left in each one.
 hn> The surgeon wanted the pathologist to go
 hn> back over his work and be sure whether
 hn> there were two masses or a single one..and
 hn> where were the markers?? Upshot? Today
 hn> we had to go in and get a special mammogram
 hn> to look for the second marker..The surgeon did
 hn> not want to be unsure as to whether he had
 hn> gotten both masses or not. If the marker had
 hn> been left then the tumor would be there as well.
 hn> Happily, the radiologist herself did the mammogram
 hn> and is 100% sure that there is no marker left in
 hn> Anne and no signs of any tumors left either.
 hn> Tomorrow we meet with the medical oncologist
 hn> and discuss the next step.

Sounds like overall, things are going well. You will have little "blips"
here and there but hopefully overall, things will go smoothly. When they
went to pull out my marker, the wire hook broke so another one had to be
put in. Rather than open me up more, they left it in and said it would
be encapsulated by tissue. It still shows up on the mammogram but
doesn't really bother me.

 hn> Amanda came in on Wednesday and it's good
 hn> to have her here both as a helper and a support!

Probably the best helper/support you can have at this stage. (G) She's
taking time from her studies/research to come up and love on her mom and
dad.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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