The Dr. scheduled the surgery for my port around noon. I had another ultra sound I needed to get complete for my kidneys the same day as the surgery. So I arrived with Jenni at the hospital around noon. "Bring your bladder full" they said. YIKES! Terry had meetings and said he would get there a little later. I registered at the arranged time. They lost me again.... I went to the wrong place again. These people have so many images of me in so many places you just can't keep them straight. "Bring your bladder full" they said. I was ready to have a HUGE accident. The hospital decided they would do the ultra sound on the kidneys. "Bring your bladder full"… Thank you for taking me. .....GO...... FINALLY I had never been so glad to make my bladder empty in my life.
After the kidney ultra sound, Jenni and I went down to a different end of the hospital and I registered for my surgery. Meanwhile, Jenni edited pictures for her photography business. She does such a wonderful job. Of course, I could be biased….No—I don’t think so. Here's the link to her blog: Silverstrand Photography Blog.
The nurses came to prep me about 2:00. I thought I’d be in soon. But- it took another two and a half hours to get me ready to take me in surgery. When Dr. Jennifer came in after the long wait, she said. “You know, you were a hard one to catch.” “What do you mean?” I responded. “ I took your CT scan, your ultra sound, your mammogram and your MRI to two different radiologists. I told them…. Okay—We know the cancer is there. Show it to me…. They couldn’t do it. They still after all of this could not see the cancer in any of these scans.” Dr. Jennifer continued, “I trust my life on these tests and scans, I have questions now.” I interjected, “But you trusted me Doc. You trusted me to KNOW that there was something wrong. Not only did you trust me, you listened to me.” So thanks!!
They finally took me in to surgery about 4:30 and I got finished about 7:30 that’s after recovery and everything. Here is a picture of the port and how it works. It is pretty cool.
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