When they start being so nice and rush the biopsy

My MRI came out good as far as only finding the one tumor that we know it. The only complication now is that the veins in my lungs looked abnormal and they want to do a CT scan of my lungs asap which with the holiday weekend means next week. They want to make sure I don't have clots in my veins of my lungs. Which would explain the fatigue and maybe even the asthma that started a few months ago. Just one more factor in the big picture.

Finally some good news, they were abel to get me in for the CT scan yesterday and there are no clots in my lungs. They were just granulomas that come from spores or viruses that are common where I live.

So now I'm meet with the oncologists next week. Still no decisions on my surgery, but since there is no cancer in the other breast, the options will probably depend on risk assessment after genetic testing, I think.

I'm in no hurry to have surgery, I'm still thinking it through and using the time to prepare for the downtime. I just bought a house and have a lot to do to finish the semester in my classroom and plan for being out for surgery.

they did a genetic test and found no genetic link, so that was good news. I decided to have a lumpectomy with sentinel node dissection, followed by radiation. they did find some cancer in one of the lymph nodes, so this week I'll find out how that factors into the treatment plan.

hottod, I see you got your oncotype score back. Did you decide to go with chemo? The 12 is a pretty good score so maybe not. Mine is an 18, which means that I have a 12% chance of reoccurrence with or without chemo. It's right on the border. So now the question is do we want to treat aggressively because I'm 40 or trust the statistics? With the oncotype test I have the option to say no to chemo and I have very good data to support that. But if I have a recurrence, there will always be the question of whether or not we should have treated. And the doctor explained me that a recurrence means somewhere else in the body that will be treatable but not curable, So basically at my age, I recurrence would mean most likely eventually dying of breast cancer before anything else. That's why age is always a factor., That and knowing that I'm otherwise healthy, with no health problems that would indicate that I wouldn't get through chemotherapy and recover without any long-term effects.

yes I'm going to do TC chemotherapy. It's only four cycles three weeks apart. And I'm going to start on Thursday just to get it over with and so that one of the cycles of time does my spring break. And the last is timed with Easter. They have a lot of things to manage side effects, my hair will fall out and I can live with that. I talked to my brother who is a doctor and a lot of people in my life and I feel good about it. I really thought that I would not get chemotherapy I thought I had caught it soon enough. That it would still be stage one. But I'm glad that I thought that way because there's no sense in stressing earlier about something that might not happen, and now that it's happening, I'm at a good place for accepting the fact that I have cancer and I have to do this kind of stuff.