Longest Month Ever

It feels like ages ago that I was at the breast center having my second set of mammogram films on Oct. 1. That was my Mom's bday and Eli's first day as a partner at Bass, Berry & Sims.

We've come a long way since then. More in an effort to document the critical happenings of October, and less as a way of boring you all to death, I wanted to chronicle the events leading up to tomorrow's surgery:

Oct. 1 -- go for second set of mammo films; radiologist says that she thinks the calcifications look like dcis.

Oct. 7 -- stereotactic biopsy

Oct. 8 -- receive pathology report from biopsy; 1.2 cm area of dcis with a small focal microinvasion

Oct. 15 -- meet with first surgeon; have ultrasound; consent to testing for BRCA 1 and 2 mutations

Oct. 19 -- MRI and meeting with second surgeon

Oct. 26 -- meet with radiation oncologist

Oct. 27 -- schedule surgery for Nov. 1, meet with surgeon again, and receive my BRCA test results which were negative

Oct. 28 -- go for pre-admission testing at the hospital

In between all of this, talk with countless breast cancer survivors and friends, and spend lots of time on the internet researching breast cancer, dcis, treatments, etc.

In between all of this, still manage to enjoy the month of October (my favorite month) by spending tons of time at the Warner Parks, having lunch with friends, hanging out at Hume-Fogg rehearsals for Les Mis, and enjoying time with my family.

Crazy times, indeed.

Erin