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Re: Fuming
I take it that the cat was okay. We all need to vent. I also think that we can decide not to have students in there. I have had my share of annoying doctors recently. I was in the hospital for five days and saw 5 hospitalists. I hate that system. I think they were worse than the illness (not cancer, this time). Finally made them get my gastroenterologist in. The last day, one of the hospitalists came in (first and only time I saw her) and said there was nothing wrong with me. I had just spoken with the GI guy and I knew that there was something wrong (gastritis, esophagitis, duodenitis and although we didn't know it until later I was having problems with Systemic mastocytosis). Called her on it. She said that if I just let her finish... , I told her that I would have if she hadn't told me there was nothing wrong with me. I don't think MD should spell rude. She started telling me what I should do when I got home and I told her that I thought I would let my gastroenterologist handle that.
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In the world of destiny, there are no statistics.
Jan. 26- mammogram and ultrasound- suspicious lump
Mid-February- lumpectomy, infiltrating ductal carcinoma ~4.5 cm and a 1 cm DCIS, did not get clear margins, did not check lymph nodes
ER+/PR+, her2 +++, nuclear grade 3 of 3
February 20-PET scan showed something on liver. No biopsy.
March- Started carboplatin, herceptin, taxol on a four week cycle
May 3- Pet scan, with intent to do a biopsy, found nothing, liver or breast- no biopsy because there is nothing to biopsy
June 21- new onc, very concerned that there had been no biopsy,
June 18th-CAT scan, bone scan-negative
August 7th - Brain MRI-negative
August 9th- mastectomy, all pathology negative
January 2008 still NED! New oncologist -herceptin for full year after chemo- until July, and tamoxifen---negative scans since May '07
July 2008-Finished Herceptin!
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