Fairly good news this morning .... the mammogram of my right breast showed that there is what Dr. de Paredes is calling "almost certainly" a benign area and recommends a six-month follow up with an MRI and mammograms. She told me all was good so I am taking her at her word and trusting in her judgment and I am walking on faith.
Dr. Trivette ordered the mammogram in preparation for the radiation which will start on August 22. If there had been another tumor, it would have had to be removed before radiation could be done. That's because you can only radiate an area once.
I got to meet with Dr. de Paredes and to thank her for saving my life because I really believe that her skill saved me. How do you spot a tumor that small and know it for what it is? That's skill.
I will come back in six months for my bilateral mammograms and if everything goes well, it will go back to just once a year. My life will go back to its normal pattern. At least that is what I hope. However, I think that nothing will ever be normal again.
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