I had my procedure. It was much less than the prior one that was supposed to be like it. It hurt some with the compression from the mammogram which I'd honestly never had trouble with but it wasn't nearly as long and I only have a band-aid. No cut in the skin, just numbing and then a needle thing that let them place the reflector device. It was odd seeing a needle sticking out of my breast though. They said not to look if I'm squeamish so of course I had to look! The weird part was they use a sound device to make sure the reflector is working. So I had a beeping breast for a minute. I never expected that in my life.

Pre-op went fine. I had blood drawn and an EKG and a thorough history . (Physcial was to be Monday). Then anesthesia came in and it all fell apart. I'm not having surgery next week.


I asked the surgeon on the 15th if I'd be ok with my MAOI and anesthesia. She said it would be fine. Instead none of the anesthesiologists at this hospital are comfortable doing the surgery without my being off the MAOI for 2 weeks. I would be suicidal and IP at that point. So that means I have to go to the big city 2.25 hours from here where they've done surgery on me before while I was on the MAOI. Their anesthesiology department have a protocol for handling it.

They are going to refer me to someone and call me with that information. Then I'll be able to contact my pdoc who is at that hospital and can talk to anesthesia.


My fear is that it is going to take another 2-3 months. This isn't a high priority lesion. It needs to come out but not necessarily today. I just don't want to wait a lot longer. I don't want to go through more tests. Today was my 5th mammogram since 12/15. That's enough. I'm going to glow in the dark soon.

I need to sleep. I have been up since 5 which is extremely early for me and I'm emotionally drained. I don't know if I can sleep or not. I can't believe I got within days of surgery only to have it cancelled.