Some hopeful news!
Yay! My blood tests, bone scan & CT scan came back negative! No evidence of spread, so hopefully radiation should take care of any residual cancer cells. The surgeon who did my mastectomy said it was probably due to the "close margins" of the 1st surgery & that remaining cells weren't taken care of by the aggressive chemo treatment -- those stubborn cancer cells!
So I have my 1st consultation with the dept. chief, radiation oncologist Dr. Marc Fields, at the Rohnert Park Cancer Center, next Monday -- it's about 1/2 hr. drive north from here -- which beats going into the city to UCSF (the other option) & having to pay for tolls & parking everyday. Pete has the day off Monday (if he finishes up his write-ups for his students) & may go up with me & take Kailee. It'll be good for him to see the clinic & hear what I'll have to go through. I checked out 3 day care providers around here & I'll probably put Kailee into one at least 3 days/week beginning Nov. so I can go to the radiation treatments & other needed appointments. Aunty Joan (a close family friend), Pete's dad & Jan may be able to help the other 2 days for a few hours. Boy, day care is almost twice as expensive as back home -- $55-70/day around here!
I had also asked the woman, Dr. Nancy Gardner, of Optimum Health Clinic, who did my breast thermogram last November back in Hilo, why her reading didn't indicate a future tumor growth -- she said although my reading was "atypical", it showed no obvious blood supply growth to a tumor (or neo-angiogenisis). So that's a mystery -- how can the tumor grow so quickly without a blood supply??? She said to schedule a free follow-up appointment w/her at some point.
Also, I got scheduled for a breast MRI in South San Francisco next Wednesday, so hopefully that should be negative too. Jan says she can take the day off & suggested that she could come with me & take Kailee to the appointment too. She's been so great about helping us resettle temporarily in the family home here, helping babysit & tolerating Kailee's behavior.
We owe her so much! :-)
So I have my 1st consultation with the dept. chief, radiation oncologist Dr. Marc Fields, at the Rohnert Park Cancer Center, next Monday -- it's about 1/2 hr. drive north from here -- which beats going into the city to UCSF (the other option) & having to pay for tolls & parking everyday. Pete has the day off Monday (if he finishes up his write-ups for his students) & may go up with me & take Kailee. It'll be good for him to see the clinic & hear what I'll have to go through. I checked out 3 day care providers around here & I'll probably put Kailee into one at least 3 days/week beginning Nov. so I can go to the radiation treatments & other needed appointments. Aunty Joan (a close family friend), Pete's dad & Jan may be able to help the other 2 days for a few hours. Boy, day care is almost twice as expensive as back home -- $55-70/day around here!
I had also asked the woman, Dr. Nancy Gardner, of Optimum Health Clinic, who did my breast thermogram last November back in Hilo, why her reading didn't indicate a future tumor growth -- she said although my reading was "atypical", it showed no obvious blood supply growth to a tumor (or neo-angiogenisis). So that's a mystery -- how can the tumor grow so quickly without a blood supply??? She said to schedule a free follow-up appointment w/her at some point.
Also, I got scheduled for a breast MRI in South San Francisco next Wednesday, so hopefully that should be negative too. Jan says she can take the day off & suggested that she could come with me & take Kailee to the appointment too. She's been so great about helping us resettle temporarily in the family home here, helping babysit & tolerating Kailee's behavior.
We owe her so much! :-)
posted by goforsushi @ 8:26 AM
1 Comments:
At 10:04 PM,
Richard said…
Glad to hear that things are looking good! Also glad that you're not in Hilo and needing to see all those specialists and getting those procedures done. We miss you guys, say hi to Kailee and Pete for us.
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