Thanks Beth. I got home and my mom helped me with some things at my house and I fell asleep. It was a long day.


I am having surgery on the 2nd. Actually a procedure on the 24th and then surgery the 2nd. The thing that needs to go is rarely malignant (5-8%) and the surgery won't be very big or anything; it just needs to come out so it doesn't have a higher risk later.


I go the 24th for ANOTHER mammogram guided procedure to place a reflector (I think that's what they call it) that goes in the area to be removed. That part I kind of dread because the biopsy done that way was hard on me. They think though I may have had a coincidental virus. Anyway, they make a little incision and the mammogram guides them in placing the reflector. In the actual surgery they'll send the tissue that's been removed to radiology to be sure the reflector is removed and so that means the area they meant to remove is gone. So that's actually kind of neat but it is also my 5th mammogram/mammogram guided procedure since Dec. 15.

I need to do pre-op with my family dr. I scheduled it without paying attention to anything and scheduled it during my therapy time. So I had to cancel therapy. Which was kind of weird; it's 2 weeks out, almost 3 and the receptionist sounded irritated and said "OK ,I'll tell "therapist". I had to call back to be sure I still had an appointment for next week because I was going to worry constantly. But I don't cancel appointments often so I'm not sure why she sounded annoyed with my cancellation. I didn't even try to reschedule. Oh well, everyone has bad days.

So it's all in place and in 2 weeks I'll be healing from surgery. I honestly can't wait. This has been a long, long process.