After what seemed like the longest week of my life, April 7 finally arrived. The appointment was the clinics first one of the day so we made our way down to Sioux City bright and early that morning. I’m going to do my best to wrap this up using fewer words so it’s easier to follow along from now on long story short I had my MRI the previous week that it showed that more invasive looking areas so Dr. Qalbani Started with the ultrasound to see if he could find those areas with the ultrasound to take a biopsy of however he could not locate the areas that he thought he had seen on the MRI so who knows if that was just artifact or some sort of movement that caused shadowing that looks like a mass but I guess it was a good thing he could not find any mass on the ultrasound? Hoping that that means there is no invasive disease but again the only way to really know for certain is once my mastectomy is completed and the pathology comes back on that tissue. So I didn’t end up needin a ultrasound guided biopsy since he couldn’t find the area in question…we moved over to the stereotactic biopsy room to proceed with those biopsies. I was good and numb for those, But rather than making the incision and sticking a needle in to that incision once I believe it was about nine times that Dr Qalbani went into the same incision (at different angles) to try to get more of a representation of what he was seeing on the mammogram and MRI and the calcifications. He couldn’t seem to get a good representation of several calcifications in one sample…I definitely had more bruising in the days after that biopsy,but the pain was pretty much negligible again….
I really try to stay positive when things are overwhelming and I feel like things are out of my control sometimes the best way to do that is by distraction for me anyways LOL I think the best way to deal with anxiety is action on the situation but when you can’t do that quite yet distraction is the second best way In my humble opinion. For the past two or three years I’d been looking at beds and wanting to find a bedroom set because as long as we’ve been together we’ve never actually had a “bedroom set” ….we had our bedroom “pieces” but nothing went together and not that I am big on things being Matchy-matchy but I just wanted a cohesive look…More of an intentionally calming vibe…Especially considering I would probably be spending more time in our room just with recovering and resting etc. Plus if I’m being honest, I just wanted a new bedroom set and something to distract myself while I waited for the surgical consult…After my appointment I was still numbed up and had an ice pack in the left side of my bra,and I said to Brian let’s just go to a furniture store or two in hopes they’d have the Jennily bedroom set that I’d seen in an ad on TV . First stop was the Ashley Furniture Homestore… and as soon as we walked in, to the right there were some bedroom sets and the first one in line was the one I had seen in the ad! Yay!! Such a good day and that ended up being our only stop …we ordered every single piece right then and there…rather than the 12 week minimum wait on delivery (which is what we’ve been finding everywhere) this set was in stock …only we had to get the pieces from Sioux Falls except for having to wait a few weeks for the nightstands. Tristan and Tara ended up going up later that night to pick up the items they had in stock at the SF warehouse.
Illuminating Shadows 