Well, I'm still playing with my soft pastels....waiting to hear when my surgery date will be...

[LiberalLoner]

53. Thank you so so much! ❤️❤️❤️ My Mom lived just outside of Helena, near Scratch Gravel Hill,

Until she passed away. She had a nice cozy log house and she waved at the trains that went by and when the rattlesnakes were out, shot the buggers from her front porch like any self-respecting farm girl raised in Montana would do.

Today when I was out driving, saw a Montana grizzlies sticker on a car and I knew it was my Mom giving me a sign she was watching over me.

Yeah, everything here is busy apparently.

My imaging place, AAR imaging, was super busy so it took three months between when the first mammogram showed the cancer, until extra imaging was done, and then two biopsies done. I have another biopsy next week because they couldn’t do all the biopsies…too busy.

And my breast MRI, to be done at another place that has the right kind of MRI, took a month of waiting…will be 31 August.

My Oncology surgeon at INOVA said his hope was to get a surgery date 4-6 weeks after the MRI. But the plastic surgeon at a later appointment said things were terribly backed up and we were looking at several months of waiting.

It’s been 8 days since I saw the plastic surgeon doctor, so now my team is complete and they should have submitted a request for an OR to the scheduling department…no call back to me yet on a date.

My husband will be calling our nurse coordinator tomorrow to find out when we can expect to hear about a surgery date.

Now, I read 98% of breast cancer patients get surgery in 60 days or less from the biopsy results/diagnosis.

It’s already been roughly a month for me since diagnosis, and if they add a three month wait on top of that…well, I guess I am in the unlucky 2% then.

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