So, today has been weird. Jeff and I went to the UW-Madison Cancer Center yesterday for a second opinion, and talked to a really great team of people. I'm having surgery tomorrow, so today is my last day at work for a while, and I've spent most of the afternoon typing up instructions. And I cleaned my desk up a little bit. It was pretty bad.
Today is also our 13th anniversary. That's pretty cool. =)
So, yesterday: The surgeon advocated for chemotherapy before surgery. The oncologist (who reminded both me and Jeff of House's oncologist friend on the TV show {and me of Neal from Dead Poets Society, in what I'm going to take as a nod to you, Christy, up in heaven}) was more of an "it's your choice" guy - both ways (surgery first, then chemo and chemo first, then surgery) have the same success rate, so it's basically a personal choice.
Well, seeing as I had surgery scheduled for 2 days later, we chose to do surgery (at FHN) first, then chemo, perhaps up at UW-Madison.
I'm going to be really vain and selfish here, but
A) I'm not ready to lose my hair yet
B) I want things to start happening NOW, and
C) my three-week convalescence will wrap up with a trip to Panama City Beach and New Orleans (where we're seeing Duran Duran as part of my Christmas gift)
So, surgery it is.
I'm glad we went up to Madison, though. Everyone we met with was extremely nice and made it clear that we can choose to do any part of the treatment up in Madison, or in conjunction with Madison. The surgeon ordered an ultrasound of my lymph nodes on the left side (which looked clean, whew) and the oncologist ordered some blood work. I was extremely surprised when the oncologist called me back himself to let me know the blood work all looked good, too. Like, an actual person with an MD called me - I can't usually even get that to happen when I need to talk to a doctor for his own promotion at work!
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