LC Commissioners & Surgeon

 This morning I was up with Patrick. Debbie picked me up and we headed to the Lewis County Commissioner meeting. I am disappointed that you can see the quilts that we showed. But I'm very thankful to Lewis County for helping us out. We are looking forward to seeing how the boxes turned out and where they will be for us. When we were done there, we headed for Dutch Brothers for double points day and I bought Debbie a coffee for taking me this morning. Next stop was the museum to drop off and pick up quilts. Once that was done, Debbie dropped me off home. 

Patrick was working in the yard. I got lunch. The nurse from Kaiser called me at 1:20 pm and we talked about 20 mins. Then it was time to head up to Olympia and meet us with Cindy before going into my appointment. Cindy picked up a quilt to use at the Puyallup Barn Quilt "show." That is in a week or so. I'll get the quilt back later. 

Next it was to the surgeons. We spend an hour and 15 mins talking about what I have. What is good about it, what can happen. What I need to know about the surgery. What choices I had. I pretty much told him that I respect his decision on what I should do. I really liked the surgeon and know he knows what he is doing. 

Here is what Patrick send to the family through text message - FYI...Lynn has stage 0 grade 3 DCIS breast cancer. We met with the surgeon today. We really like him. She is going to have a lumpectomy and removal of a couple of lymph nodes for inspection sometime between now and January. Will let you know as soon as we know. The surgery will be a day surgery in Tacoma. She will most probably need radiation 5 days a week for a while after the surgery. The good news is that she can do that in Centralia. She is lucky they caught it this early and the amount and speed of attention from Kaiser has been phenomenal. Since finding out Friday she has had 2 extended calls with specialty nurses, met with the surgeon and had pre and post surgery briefings. 

So, now the "fun" begins. I should know by Friday when I will be scheduled for surgery. He told me breast cancer surgery trumps all other surgeries. They need to get it and get it fast. Life goes on, as I have been saying. They were concerned that my Aunt had breast cancer and my grandfather had pancreatic cancer. The interesting part is that my Aunt's (my cousins) 4 daughters haven't had signs of breast cancer. Yeah, nope, it had to come to me! They will do the DNA information to see if it is in the family or if I'm just lucky and got it all on my own.  I have a family of support as well as good friends. 

I can do this. I'm in a daze, but I can do this. It's all positive and very doable. I'm not thrilled about radiation, but if I have to, I will. I still plan to keep up with being Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!