Still Home Waiting

8/19/11 Friday     Anyone who has ever spent time cruising knows that not all things go according to plan. So it is in our lives right now. Our reason for coming home was for Pam to have another mammogram done as well as an ultrasound. Seems that when we were home in June and had our checkups they found a suspicious looking spot on one of her breasts. Of course we weren't notified of this until we were back on Tourist and well into Canada. Our first stop back in the states that would afford us a convenient place to head home from was going to be the Mackinac area of Michigan where Tourist is now.

Pam's appointment was Tuesday and didn't take long at all however they wouldn't tell her what they had found. That is the doctors job and she would be in touch in a day or two. At this point I think we may get better info if we had gone to a veterinarian! Anyway, home we go with both of us worrying about the unknown. Our plan was to wait overnight and call the doctor in the morning. Miracle of miracles the doctor calls first thing Wednesday morning. (If I sound sarcastic it's only because to this point our communication with the doctor, nurse, and x-ray department has been as straight forward as one of those corn mazes you see in the Midwest every fall.)

The ultrasound confirms that there is a nodule inside. They believe it has a low risk of cancer and we can take one of two courses of action. 1. Wait 6 months and have another mammogram and see if it has changed. Or 2. Have a lumpectomy and remove it and check it for cancer. Needless to say we opted for #2.

Our next step is to meet the surgeon on this coming Tuesday (the earliest he could see us) and discuss the procedure and I assume also schedule the surgery. Until then we sit suspended in our own thoughts and worries and Tourist sits waiting for her crew to return.

Tourist waiting at Straits State Marina.