Discouraged

Well, today we met the Oncologist who will be overseeing my Chemotherapy. To be honest, I was not impressed. He was very late, and seemed rushed and disjointed. I don't know if this is how he normally is or if we just caught him on a bad day. (Or maybe Mayo just spoiled us rotten :-) ) Or maybe he was just truly baffled by what he found while he examined me and that threw him off, but I honestly left the appointment feeling very confused. You see, he examined my surgery site, and while examining me he felt in my arm pits and discovered a rather large lump (that I had already noticed a couple of days ago) on the side I had the invasive cancer which he thinks is a lymph node. This seemed to concern him, even though he said it would be very strange that it would actually be cancerous, being that the sentinel nodes were removed and found to contain no cancer. He said he had never seen anything like this post surgery and needed to look into it further.

So as it stands now, I go in to our local hospital for a MUGA scan to get a baseline test of my heart function before I start Chemo, since one of the possible side effects of chemo is damage to the heart. Then on Thursday, I go back to GF to have an ultrasound taken of my swollen lymph node and if they deem it necessary, a biopsy as well. Then I have a port for chemotherapy surgically placed and then I meet with the Oncologist again. Hopefully, at this point we will have a better idea of a chemo start date.