Playing Catch-Up

To catch everyone up, here is what has transpired so far.  Mom found the lump on Thursday, 4/11.  She spent Friday morning 4/12 trying to get in to get a mammogram.  She was able to get in to her OB/GYN that morning and she did an exam to see if there were any other lumps.  Her appointment for a mammogram was set up for Tuesday, 4/16.  On Tuesday morning she went in for her mammogram.  They found a second site that neither Mom nor her GYN doc felt.  Later that same morning she had a biopsy of one site done and fluid drianed from both sites.  So at this point, one site was considered a cyst while the other was actually described to us having 2 disctinve sides.  One side was a solid mass area and the other side was a cyst type of area.  Samples were taken of the fluid from both and the biopsy was taken from the mass.  On Wednesday, 4/17 we received the word that she did, in fact, have breast cancer.  Over the next couple of days there was some discussion between pathologists regarding what type of cancer it actually was.  She was finally diagnosed with Invasive Ductile Carcinoma.

Fast forward to this week.  Mom had an appointment with her surgeon, Dr. Robert Goulet who practices at Community East.  Both she and Dad really like him and everyone at work (Mom & I both work at Hendricks Regional Health) has had amazing things to say about him.  Dr. Goulet wanted to extract the tissue from the cyst site to determine if there were any cancer cells in that tissue.  There was no extraction of this tissue done last week, just the fluid.  So, yesterday afternoon she went in and he took the tissue out and sent it off for pathology.  What a trooper she was, she only had a local anesthetic and was busting the doors down to get out of there.  I think I've heard somewhere that nurses (I think this could be changed to all medical professionals) make the worst patients.  :)  We are awaiting word today to find out what the pathology says about the tissue sample.  Her course of treatment will be determined based on these findings.

"The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith." -Saudi Arabian Proverb

Keep Calm & Fight On
-Meg