Surgery #4

Today is surgery #4. The folks at Mayo have convinced me that one more (minor) surgery could help with my almost-positive margins. They are just taking about 3 square inches of skin around the lumpectomy scar. In surgery they take a little bit of the muscle underneath to get the margins as clear as they like. They have to drain out 150 ccs of my tissue expander but at least they don't have to remove it. Heidi Chua is the surgeon and she does a good job.

The subsequent path report shows tiny amounts of invasive cancer and some DCIS, so we're glad we did it.

Well the plastic surgeon is ready...

Our plastic surgeon called to tell us he has an opening next week. But our surgeon hasn't answered us about what mastectomy he's willing to do. Our other surgeon (at the same office) has not called us back either. So we could get this over with 4 days from now but we can't get any love from Dr. Chisholm's office. We're getting more and more tired of being ignored by him and his staff.