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BonnieR · 05-23-2010, 06:51 PM

patb, you are so right about the second opinion! This was a rush job and I had reservations about the push. But everyone thought it was cancer and time was of the essence blah, blah. I said I wanted to see a pulmonologist first but the surgeon said "he will just refer you back to me". (I already had an appt with him for a few days later) I have since seen him, and of course he would have taken a more conservative route and treated me with antibiotics first! But he understood how the ball got rolling.
I think it was something of a perfect storm. And I was in the middle of it.

05-23-2010, 06:51 PM	#17
BonnieR Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 2,210	Re: Bad News/Good News/Keep the Faith patb, you are so right about the second opinion! This was a rush job and I had reservations about the push. But everyone thought it was cancer and time was of the essence blah, blah. I said I wanted to see a pulmonologist first but the surgeon said "he will just refer you back to me". (I already had an appt with him for a few days later) I have since seen him, and of course he would have taken a more conservative route and treated me with antibiotics first! But he understood how the ball got rolling. I think it was something of a perfect storm. And I was in the middle of it. __________________ Bonnie Post menopause May 2007 Core biopsy, Rt breast ER+, Pr-, HER2 +++, Grade 3 Ki-67: 90% "suspicious area" left breast Bilateral mastectomy, (NED on left) May 2007 Sentinel Node Neg Stage 1, DCIS with microinvasion, 3 mm, mostly removed during the biopsy.... Femara (discontinued 7/07) Resumed 10/07 OncoType score 36 (July 07) Began THC 7/26/07 (d/c taxol and carboplatin 10/07) Began Herceptin alone 10/07 Finished Herceptin July /08 D/C Femara 4/10 (joint pain/trigger thumb!) 5/10 mistakenly dx with lung cancer. Middle rt lobe removed! Aromasin started 5/10