Nate and I are having a ball.
We spent all day at the Magic Kingdom today. It was glorious.
I have an idea for an ad for Disney World that would never ever be accepted because, well . . . . some would just find it in bad taste:
“You’ve just received your cancer diagnosis. What are you going to do now?”
I’M GOING TO DISNEY WORLD!!
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OK, no fair doing this and not updating with medical news when I have some.
I did get a chance to talk with the oncologist on Fri. morning before we left. The scoop is this: the cancer is not in the skin so apparently it’s not inflammatory breast cancer but “regular” breast cancer as I understand these things. That’s the good news.
OK, now there’s no need to get angry with any of my doctors, except the first surgeon who was a butthead. He was the one who made the huge assumption that this was Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC). The oncologist did say that my breast didn’t have all the hallmarks of (IBC) but it had enough of them that she was, until/unless shown otherwise, treating it like IBC, thinking it was better to be aggressive and not let the cancer spread. The second surgeon, Dr. Nice, must be a great diagnostician too, because he said that it was questionable whether it was IBC — that it wasn’t a “cut and dried” IBC — but by that time, I had convinced myself that it was.
At any rate . . . . .
The bad news is that there are spots on the liver — two 1″ spots that need to be biopsied. So the chemotherapy is being delayed until I can have a liver biopsy done. I had been focusing on the small spots on the lungs when I wrote previously. But this all does confuse me quite a bit.
This has, for sure, been a rollercoaster ride. I honestly don’t know what the next step will be because it depends on the results from the liver biopsy. Needless to say, there will be no chemotherapy on Tues. They need to see what’s going on with the spots in the liver. If those are cancer, then the oncologist will be changing the chemo. I think it will still be chemo first, but I’m not sure.
Honestly, all I can do now is give it over to God, pray, and see what happens with the results.
And keep enjoying myself here for another day which is exactly what I’m doing.
Coming here is the best medicine I could have been prescribed right before things get really tough.
Thank you so much, everyone, for all of your comments and kind thoughts.
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More when I get back.
