Met with Group#2 oncologist today and the meeting turned out as I feared. I really liked his approach, the bustling facility and he is doing the dose dense treatment that I had heard good things about. So here we go again ! I can say that I liked him even more than the oncologist that resigned in Group#2 that was highly recommended.
He said that he usually did not do chemo to patients until about 3-4 weeks if they had bilateral mastectomy with expanders like I had, since that is considered major surgery and would like to let the body heal completely. After I mentioned that my sutures were not healing fast thus the Plastic Surgeon was not able to start expansion he said ' well if he is not comfortable expanding I certainly will not give you chemo now' which is a point that I never had thought of.
He pencilled me in for next Thursday September 27 for chemo and appointment, and said that if I wanted to go with the Group#1 I should just call in and cancel.
Sat down with a chai latte at Starbucks with Fred, called sisterinlaw and Nuge to brainstorm ... and we all decided that I really felt a lot more comfortable with Group#2 doctor and the proposed treatment.
Soo.. now the plan is as of 6:32 pm wednesday: ( have to time stamp my decisions cause I am even confusing myself)
Get the port placed in tomorrow with an outpatient surgery which I still be sedated for.( I am still pretty mad at group#1 oncologist for not instructing for the port placement during the 1st surgery even though I had asked for it before the surgery now I need to get sedated one more time needlessly !!!! )
Call Group#1 and tell them to 'postpone' the chemo on friday cause I do not see the sutures healing and would like to see Dr. Pope to get a go ahead for chemo, and I also wanted to look into dose dense chemo.
Now I really am going and starting reading the Kite Runner.. enough is enough !
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