Aloha everyone, my how Time Flies! It has been one whole month since leaving Maui back to our California home in Yucaipa. I am adjusting daily, the hardest thing has been the weather. I don’t believe there has been a day where it has reached 70 degrees! The above picture was taken last night from my home…..one can never used to how beautiful sunsets are.
I have established with my new medical team here in southern California. My new medical Oncologist is at the Cancer Center where I used to work prior to moving to Maui. I have had two appointments with him last month, the first being on February 13th. I was a bit overcome with emotion on that day, it was just surreal to walk in there as a patient and not an employee. Everyone that recognized me gave me hugs and well wishes, again the morning was rough for me. I really like my new Oncologist, he took the time to talk to me about my past treatment and the plan moving forward. I still have my medi-port, so he had the nurse flush it, and draw labs before I left. I have nurse visits for port flush for the next two months with my next Oncologist and labs appointment on May 25th. I established with a Primary Care Physician (PCP), also in the Palm Springs area, he ordered labs as well, I go back to see him next week to discuss the results of those labs. My PCP also asked about my decision to do a prophylactic mastectomy. My response “dense breast”. For those of you that have been reading my blog from the beginning you will recall that my breast cancer was not caught early due to the composition of my natural breast tissue. Which brings me to the picture below! Looking at the formation of those clouds reminded me of my dense breast tissue!! The white represents dense tissue and the blue representing fat. LOL….only a Mammography Technologist will look at the clouds and compare it to breast tissue!!!!…..yay, try to find a tiny cancer starting in that hot mess!
Plastic surgeon appointment:
I met with a plastic surgeon to discuss my reconstruction options. My husband was with me which words can not describe how much his presence there made a difference to me. The plastic surgeons office had an extensive questionnaire which was emailed to me and I had plenty of time to properly fill it out. We talked about the options of reconstruction (which I will save for another blog)
Basically, my last Radiation Treatment was on June 20, 2016 I had 29 rounds…..so, he will not do the surgery until one year has passed from that date, giving my skin enough time to heal from the mastectomy and the radiation treatment. My next appointment with him is on June 21st, which at this time we will proceed and get the prophylactic mastectomy and reconstruction scheduled.
Mahalo for reading my blog
Pina
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