No, you can’t sir!

Last Thursday's CT scan results aren't up on the patient portal yet, but the molecular bone scan I had on Friday are and I am feeling optimistic...     FINDINGS:      Bones and Soft Tissues:  normal physiologic distribution of activity.     IMPRESSION:     No evidence of osseous metastases. Mark will accompany me on Tuesday to hear what Dr. Patt has to say about these, and results from the CT scan, hopefully with a plan of action for treatment that can begin in short order.   Until then, I have been engaging in time spent with dear friends, enjoying this amazing autumn weather both on two feet and two wheels, laughing with folks celebrating Oktoberfest and witnessing the sun coming up and going down.  I hope you are doing much the same, and that you know how much I appreciate all of your heartfelt prayers and well-wishes, your authentic requests of how you might help me, your deep care of how I am doing and letting me know...

Yes, I felt the lump on my own. No, I wasn’t particularly worried. Yes, I alerted my doctor.  Yes, I waited longer than I care to admit in getting the mammogram (in my defense, this occurred right before Covid).  No, I didn’t think it was malignant.  I was wrong. Wrong to wait, wrong to be cavalier, wrong to assume the little mass was benign. (Three wrongs don’t make a right.) Well, what can you do but forge ahead.  The 3-d mammogram in late August showed suspicious activity in my left breast ducts and axilla lymph nodes.  The biopsy on each a few weeks later revealed invasive carcinoma.  Several weeks later, latter part of October now (many hoops to be jumped through obtaining proper insurance) and after meeting with one of Austin’s renowned breast cancer specialists, I am going in for a CT Scan and a molecular bone scan.  These tests should provide Dr. Patt with enough information to go on in creating a treatment action plan.  The biopsy result...