Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Disappointment...

So I saw the oncologist yesterday...I was very disappointed that he didn't have all of the pathology reports. I even called both of my doctors and asked if they had faxed everything. They both told me yes...alas, Dr. Manning only had the report from the first surgery until right before he walked in the door. He was ready to come in and tell me that I needed more surgery because there were no "clean edges" on the first surgery and then he was handed the report from the second surgery.

Here's what we know...Estrogen positive which means the cancer spreads quicker if estrogen is produced so they will have to give medication to block that. Because of the lack of pathology reports, we are still uncertain of what stage it is...possibly as low as Stage II but maybe as high as Stage IV...The one thing that he said that scares me is that Stage IV is incurable. I looked at survival rates for Stage IV and it is 15% at 5 years. I am determined to not be one of the 85%!!

On another note, we spent the weekend in SLC and took some fabulous pictures. Here are a couple from Temple Square...





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