Dolly or Kate?

Navigating the waters of doctors is a full time job, and mentally exhausting. Getting a 2nd opinion has created more waiting, even though I know I have to do it. I've set-up two different appointments with different plastic surgeons, and I'll be meeting with the regular surgeon from Fox Chase in a few days...so things are moving along...it's just taking a lot longer than I thought it would....choosing the surgeon, then the plastic surgeon, and then the hospital, not to mention the oncologist down the line.... However I am so grateful to even have a choice. I know there are many women today even as I write who have no health insurance. They are facing huge medical bills, even losing their house to breast cancer...to beat the cancer. I can't help but think of them all day as I make my calls and go about my routines.....

I wake up every night and it takes me about an hour to go back to sleep. I think of my dad who also did this when he was diagnosed with stage 4 Burkitt's Lymphoma at age 84. He would tell us kids how he'd have trouble sleeping at night. No doubt Dad was spending part of that time talking to his maker, like me. How scary for him, his prognosis was so much worse, with a huge grapefruit sized tumor in his belly...and an aged body.

I looked at one of the plastic surgeon's web-sites yesterday to see his "work" in the chest department. Without going into much detail I'll just say that there are some choices I am going to have to make in the near future! And shopping for that "special new look for myself" is actually quite thrilling! Do I want to go with Dolly Parton or Kate Moss? Hhmmmmm...decisions decisions....

I honestly never imagined that in late August, 2013 I would be looking at web-sites of before and after photos of boobies, but stranger things HAVE happened. Sometime I will tell you about the time my brother and I found our family cat, Ebenezer, dead in 
our freezer!

      VS