Recipes for living, loving and laughing:Jo, Elliott, Cloey & Zoey's adventures

 Well, My appointment was later in the week but since we were going to go to the beach I made it for today. When the pathology comes back I'll have a phone visit with Dr. Baker.  Alyssa mentioned chemo twice and that freaked me out because that was not on the table and an appointment in July but hopefully we will be on the east coast by then.  I can do a little more but I shouldn't be crazy with lifting.  My test results (not pathology are: Joanne Levy is POD 7 s/p left BREAST LUMPECTOMY and SENTINEL LYMPG NODE BIOPSY . Her pathology was not available at time of her visit . She has no concerns today and is pleased with the results. She states that she only took 1 Percocet after surgery.   OBJECTIVE: BP 122/79 | Pulse 83 | Temp (Src) 97.3 °F (36.3 °C) (Oral) GENERAL: Well developed, well nourished, female in no acute distress. RESPIRATORY: Normal effort. Left Breast /axilla : Incision s are healing well, clean, dry and intact. Excellent cosmesis. ...

1/31/2002  It has been many years since I had my first "needle biopsy" at Faulkner Hospital in Massachusetts. Since then I've had multiple needle biopsies. In 2012 since I had atypical ductal hyperplasia I was sent to a wonderful medical oncologist in Boston. He put me on a tamoxifen drug but without the side effect of blood clots.  I was on that for five years. My five years was up after we moved to Lincoln, CA where I was lucky enough to find Dr. Lisa Nelson in Roseville . She was and is a great doctor and most importantly very proactive. I started having an MRI, Ultrasound and Mammogram yearly. There were "things" that at the time were calcifications but I was bring watched carefully.  1/5/2002 I had my yearly MRI with contrast. That resulted in needing breast biopsies in both breasts. This right side was ultrasound guided January 12 ; the left side could not be done that way, so we scheduled an MRI guided ultrasound.  On the 17th I got news that there was n...