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It's back.
After a disease free interval of 10 years, my lobular carcinoma is back. You bewdy. The first tumour took months to diagnose, the new one was in the site of an old seroma that I had been monitoring f...
You're probably right, primek. I'm very happy with the quality of the public system. Of course it has it's faults--most obviously being under funded, under staffed, under resourced and over used.
My main problem has been keeping the lines of communication open. It can be really difficult to co-ordinate care when your specialists are in multiple and remote sites. You'd know about that. Bless the Breast Care Team here, they are doing their best.
I had my most recent surgery in Melbourne and the dramas involved in draining a seroma today were just ridiculous. It's taken three days to achieve something that would have been sorted in a couple of hours if I lived in the city. And that's not because the service isn't available; it took that long for everyone 300km away to sign off on it because I'd had the surgery there and no-one up here wanted to make a decision without endorsement. That was my choice to a point because I'd opted for reconstructive surgery which isn't available here, but I have to wear the consequences. I can expect the same circus when I start chemo (assuming I do actually start it)
My main problem has been keeping the lines of communication open. It can be really difficult to co-ordinate care when your specialists are in multiple and remote sites. You'd know about that. Bless the Breast Care Team here, they are doing their best.
I had my most recent surgery in Melbourne and the dramas involved in draining a seroma today were just ridiculous. It's taken three days to achieve something that would have been sorted in a couple of hours if I lived in the city. And that's not because the service isn't available; it took that long for everyone 300km away to sign off on it because I'd had the surgery there and no-one up here wanted to make a decision without endorsement. That was my choice to a point because I'd opted for reconstructive surgery which isn't available here, but I have to wear the consequences. I can expect the same circus when I start chemo (assuming I do actually start it)