Feelings and waiting..
I like to write for my own therapy and figured here would be a good place to do it - for validation, to help others maybe, and just knowing I'm in an environment that understands this roller coaster. ...
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Today was my Angiogram day (catheter). I am pretty relieved for more reasons than one! They did not put in a stent. The nurse told me that my case was going to 'conference' on Friday for them to make a decision on my treatment. That confused me and of course had me thinking everything rotton! The dr finally arrived to chat with me. He said I needed a stent. ONE - a stent! YAY!! I was so so relieved. He did not tell me why they didn't do it today. So on further discussion I reminded him I am now a cancer patient also, and we talked about that. Told him my first appointment with Oncology is next Tuesday so needed to know what order things should go in. He said if I have a stent, I can't have surgery for 6mths. Well that's a contradiction in what I learned before, but GOOD to know now isn't it!
He said my condition is not life threatening, so it CAN wait till I have my breast surgery (whichever way I go) and we can go from there.
SO glad I found out now before the stent went in.
The lady beside me had pricked her ears up also, she is a BC survivor and was SO lovely to talk to. I learned a lot from her and she was quite teary having someone else to talk to about it. It has given me a different persepective and I am now over confused with what choice I am going to make re surgery.
Feeling happier today because I'm not about to die of a heart attack ;-)
He said my condition is not life threatening, so it CAN wait till I have my breast surgery (whichever way I go) and we can go from there.
SO glad I found out now before the stent went in.
The lady beside me had pricked her ears up also, she is a BC survivor and was SO lovely to talk to. I learned a lot from her and she was quite teary having someone else to talk to about it. It has given me a different persepective and I am now over confused with what choice I am going to make re surgery.
Feeling happier today because I'm not about to die of a heart attack ;-)