Thursday Schedule

Thursday will be a long and busy day for us...

• 9:30am - Meet with the surgeon who will mark up the "palpable" lump (7mm tumor that has been biopsied)
• 9:45am - Head to MRI department for 10:15am MRI where they will find the smaller 4mm spot and somehow mark it up so surgeon knows what to cut out.
• 12:30pm - Arrive at the surgical center for pre-surgery prep
• 1:30pm - Surgery scheduled to begin so if you could send some healing, cancer ass kicking thoughts my way then, I'd appreciate it.
• 2:30pm - Surgery should be wrapping up and I'll go to recovery.
• 4:00pm - Head home, assuming I have kept down crackers and peed.    Times are all assuming the surgery starts on time.   My mastectomy in 2011 started 2.5 hours late so hopefully we'll be luckier this time!

We'll have full pathology back in about a week and then will make the final determination on chemo. Doctors at Newton-Wellesley have discussed and they are thinking no based on pathology of biopsied spot but they'll consider again and we'll do a consult with Dana-Farber.   If no chemo, I'll have about a 4 week break before radiation starts.

Craig will likely post once I am out of surgery or I will do so from recovery, once I am awake.