I found out today another little way my world has changed with this precancerous cell mess.

A friend on facebook was complaining about how hard it is to get a doctor appointment for anything anymore, listing various specialties. I nodded along, agreeing in my mind.

And then I remembered the high risk breast clinic having to cancel my first appointment and when I said "oh, that's ok, take your time" they said it was important to get me in. Since at the time I didn't know that I was high risk I thought that odd and they got me in 3 weeks later which is like hours in relative time to my hospital. When they wanted an MRI in 6 weeks it was scheduled in exactly 6 weeks. For the rest of my life I'll get in for mammograms and MRIs every 6 months without any scheduling difficulties and if I find a lump I'll get into high risk clinic rapidly and then get imaging rapidly. When I have post-op in 2 weeks I have a mammogram scheduled. Based on my prior experience in that clinic (breast surgery vs. high risk) they'll probably do ultrasounds on my various lumps in both breasts, plus checking on my new lump either with 3D mammogram and/or ultrasound.

It's weird. In comparison I had to wait nearly 2 months from meeting my surgeon to get my gallbladder out even though I was miserable. My ankle surgery was scheduled 2 months before it was done. They schedule everything way out. But now, in this one area, I don't wait.

It's weird.