have time to round anyone up to go with me.
consisted of talking with Dr King and him telling me that he was worried about
the "lump" being a sarcoma but assured me that even if it turned out to be
cancer, the treatment would most likely be radiation to shrink it and then
surgery to remove it. No chemo because as a rule, Sarcomas are not very
"chemo-responsive". After talking for awhile, he brought in his "team". Now,
don't get me wrong, I love the team now, but when he had everyone come
in to meet me, all I could think of was "I don't want a team. Thanks
but no thanks". Of course this was all spoken in my head. Meeting the "team" for me was really a defining moment in terms of my realization that this was most likely cancer.
Next Dr King informed me that we needed to get CT-guided needle biopsy of the "lump". We schduled that and also a follow-up to review the results within just a couple of days. I feel lucky looking back that I didn't have to wait the weeks and even months many patients do for biopsy results. That is just unacceptable.
During the biopsy (which was done using local anesthesia) I watched as they extracted the tissue from my leg. I could see by the lighter pinkish color that it was definitely NOT a hematoma (which is what I was really hoping it was!). Side note: when they gave me the lidocaine to numb my leg they had to go deep because the "lump" resided so deeply in my leg and they ended up hitting a major nerve and numbing that too so when I got up my leg gave way completely. It was pretty funny actually.
And now I wait. 48 hours. I was to go in for my results on Friday, September 5th, 2008. My daughter Mallory's 3rd birthday. Surely I couldn't get bad news on that day of all days, right? WRONG.
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