Day 3 I have to go back in at 1 pm to the ambulatory care center to the mammogram area and have a ultrasound guided biopsy done on the lymph node under my arm pit and an ultra sound on an area they think they see on the MRI yesterday. I have to go the breast care center first to get a referral first than provide that along with my insurance and ID (every visit). They send me back to the mammogram area to wait. They scheduled me as a "Add-On" for 1 pm so they will fit me into their schedule. I have the EKG rescheduled for 3:30 pm so I figure I have plenty of time to get from 1 to the other. Boy was I wrong. The mammography department leaves me waiting for 2 1/2 hours so I dont get the biopsy started til the time for the EKG. I ask them can they call radiology and let them know I was in the building and that I would be up shortly to get the EKG. Unfortunately no one knew the number and by the time someone found it they had closed up and I had to be rescheduled once again. But I digress..let me explain the biopsy done this time.
This time instead of taking samples of tissues from the lump, they are now taking samples of tissue from the lymph node in my armpit. The difference being that while the lidocaine worked well numbing my breast it seems to have no effect on my armpit and I'm in pain as Dr Brem-the raidologist- draws the tissue samples. She then does an ultrasound on the rest of the breast looking for this 2nd area where they think they see a lump. As I'm watching the only thing I notice away from the lump is something that may be a shadow. Dr Brem says it's inconclusive if it's a tumor or not so I will have to come back the next day and have a MRI guided biopsy. Meaning if you kept count that I will be have my 3rd biopsy in less than a week. I get dressed and I wait as Dr. Brem talks to the women in MRI. Ashley from the MRI dept comes over to talk to me to tell me to be there at 10 am the next day as I have been scheduled for 10:45 am. I will need to fill out more paperwork and see my breast care doctor about getting a sedative to get through the MRI again. I nod and head up to the 4th floor to talk with the head scheduler Debbie in Radiology again about rescheduling my EKG again. I explained to her what happened and that I had been in the hospital at the time. She says ok and puts me down for the next day at 1:15. Hopefully I will finish my MRI in time to get to the EKG this time. By now it's nearly 5 pm and I've spent another half day here so I'm ready to go. I head home on the train and once again start returning calls and emails I've received. There has been some issues with my family I wont discuss and some friends are taking it harder than I expected but I'm just glad I have everyone contacting me. As I arrive home I text the guy I've been seeing and his replies are plain, vague, I try to get more but he changes the subject. I finally ask if he wants me to just stop and he says yes. I text him this is his loss not mine and stop texting him. I dont return anymore text from him. Right now my brain has to focus on getting through this I cant focus on those who cannot or will not make this journey with me. I wont waste that kind of energy. I call my dad and ask him to come with me the next day to the MRI guided biopsy the next day and he agrees to come get me before 9 am. I fall asleep shortly after that with a new day ahead.
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