No rabbits died or were endangered in any way in the production of this good, good news. Dr. Kollmorgan confirmed that there was NO cancer in the lymph nodes taken during my surgery. Furthermore, the margins of the tumor she removed were clean and cancer free. I have Stage 2 (2.7 cm tumor), Type 3, Triple negative infiltrating ductal cancer. That’s a lot of information, most of which we would not even have understood six weeks ago.
The bottom line is that the news could not have been better and we are relieved, delighted, giddy and grateful. We know that this wonderful result is due to the prayers and good wishes of many, many people. Had the news been bad we would have simply believed this was a different kind of answer...one that we might not understand but that was still part of some larger plan. There is still a larger plan but while we are waiting for that to be defined we will stick to making smaller plans. Those will include chemo therapy and radiation for purely precautionary purposes. Since my cancer is aggressive, we want to be sure there are no cells lurking about ready to mess with our success.
Meanwhile, it’s ok to be happy while I mend and recover from surgery. There’s a sunny weekend in the forecast and a healing body can always use a little deck time.
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