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<font color=darkorchid>I am debating whether to pu
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- Aug 23, 2003
Happy Friday everyone!!
Well I survived the trip to NYC with dh. It only took us 2 1/2 hours in bumper to bumper traffic to get there. We were 45 min late for our appt. and I kept calling the office and told them not to cancel it. The secretary thought we were caught up in all the times square accident mess.
This surgeon does not mess around there for sure. He is fast, efficient to the max and does not spend all that much time with the patients. But he answered all our questions and he also did a scope of me, nothing like having a camera put down you and then did another sonogram. He said he feels that this surgery will be nothing like the last one. He commented on my rare cancer and said they get all the rare ones in the city too and he also said I am of course more rare again because it recurred. This guy is on the surgical committee of the american thy. assoc and also has a grant to study the molecular aspects of thy cancer, so I am sure he is just waiting for my pathology and biopsy stuff post op. He said I will only be in the hosp. overnight with a drain that will come out the next day and I should be able to come home.
It says I have to go to the day surgery place. I dont know about that. If that is just how they do things there or my ins. not sure but I hope there are not any problems. The univ. hosp. wont even let me go to the day surgery place for surgery. They said there I have a bad history, lol. Didnt like that dh will not be able to stay with me in the room overnight. We did tell him that I usually do not recover well, so we shall see what happens. He said the scar will be another two inches. He is also happy that it seems that the cancer is only in the neck area. He said he will go in and clean it up and clean it out. He said he is doing a compartmental neck dissection He was using some terms I havent heard before but maybe those are ones he uses himself.
So the surgery is June 9. Dont know the time but dh wants to go head in at around 4 am so we do not get stuck in all that horrible traffic again. We shall see. So now monday I am going for the pre op physical. I can only get the ekg there and then I need blood work and a chest xray and I have to make sure all this stuff gets sent to NYC. My head spins with all of this. Just like Mrs. Incredible said, its so easy when one place is doing it all. I had that in the past but now I am dealing with the new surgeon and hosp. for part of this. I anticipate lots of advocating for myself here.
So I got a nice little early bday present - a surgery date lol!
GAGWTA
Well I survived the trip to NYC with dh. It only took us 2 1/2 hours in bumper to bumper traffic to get there. We were 45 min late for our appt. and I kept calling the office and told them not to cancel it. The secretary thought we were caught up in all the times square accident mess.
This surgeon does not mess around there for sure. He is fast, efficient to the max and does not spend all that much time with the patients. But he answered all our questions and he also did a scope of me, nothing like having a camera put down you and then did another sonogram. He said he feels that this surgery will be nothing like the last one. He commented on my rare cancer and said they get all the rare ones in the city too and he also said I am of course more rare again because it recurred. This guy is on the surgical committee of the american thy. assoc and also has a grant to study the molecular aspects of thy cancer, so I am sure he is just waiting for my pathology and biopsy stuff post op. He said I will only be in the hosp. overnight with a drain that will come out the next day and I should be able to come home.
It says I have to go to the day surgery place. I dont know about that. If that is just how they do things there or my ins. not sure but I hope there are not any problems. The univ. hosp. wont even let me go to the day surgery place for surgery. They said there I have a bad history, lol. Didnt like that dh will not be able to stay with me in the room overnight. We did tell him that I usually do not recover well, so we shall see what happens. He said the scar will be another two inches. He is also happy that it seems that the cancer is only in the neck area. He said he will go in and clean it up and clean it out. He said he is doing a compartmental neck dissection He was using some terms I havent heard before but maybe those are ones he uses himself.
So the surgery is June 9. Dont know the time but dh wants to go head in at around 4 am so we do not get stuck in all that horrible traffic again. We shall see. So now monday I am going for the pre op physical. I can only get the ekg there and then I need blood work and a chest xray and I have to make sure all this stuff gets sent to NYC. My head spins with all of this. Just like Mrs. Incredible said, its so easy when one place is doing it all. I had that in the past but now I am dealing with the new surgeon and hosp. for part of this. I anticipate lots of advocating for myself here.
So I got a nice little early bday present - a surgery date lol!
GAGWTA