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Meeting the hematologist/oncologist

For those of you following my breast cancer adventure, I met with my hematologist oncologist yesterday. Our first appointment was quite informative.

For the next month, I will be taking a medication that is supposed to curtail the over activity of estrogen that likely helped trigger my cancer.

If I have tolerated the medication well, I will continue taking it, and have mammograms at 3 and 6 months. It is expected that in that timeframe, the tumor in my left breast will decrease in size. The most optimal result will be that it entirely disappears. But if that doesn't happen, it is expected that it will be reduced to a size that will be either watched or perhaps removed by surgery.

Surgery is not what any of my doctors want based upon my age, my many maladies, the medications that I take and the fact that when I do have anesthesia, it is always difficult to wake me up afterwards.

Let's pray that the medication works so well that the tumor disappears, shall we?