Today was my appointment with Dr. Kollmorgan and we didn’t come away with “The Plan” as I had hoped. We did meet with her after a prolonged wait in a tiny consultation room and our first impression, besides the wait, was very good. Considering the size of my tumor, a lumpectomy is the recommended course of action. That would be followed by radiation and then chemo if indicated by lymph node results, etc.
The question now is just how much radiation did I have when I was battling cancer in 1996? How will that affect current use of radiation? She didn’t have the answers for that and referred me to a radiation oncologist. I will have to meet with him/her and to determine if I am eligible for additional radiation or need to have a mastectomy followed by chemo.
So I can’t schedule surgery because we are not sure which surgery I will need. We will have to wait for answers from the radiation specialist and then go from there. It is frustrating to have to wait but better to know now and get the correct surgery than to find out later and have to have a second surgery or to opt for the mastectomy and find out later that the lumpectomy would have been a better option.
One good thing is that both of us like and trust Dr. Kollmorgan and that is a big step in the right direction.
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