Flat

My first appointment with my surgeon, whom was highly recommended, was at Baylor Scott and White yesterday. Took all afternoon but he took his time in taking measurements, showing us pictures and explaining everything.

I am in stage one, and I have the same type of cancer in both breasts. They are estrogen and progesterone positive, which is good. My tumors are 1.6 cm (tiny) and grade 2. He is confident it's not in my lymph nodes, although he will test one or two during my surgery.  All that to say, if I'm gonna have breast cancer, I have the "good kind", and we caught it very early! Radiation before surgery isn't needed and my chances of needing chemo are almost nil! Aren't I blessed? Prayers working!

After our "counseling" he began to discuss reconstruction, where I interrupted and told him I didn't want it.......I want to go FLAT! He just grinned. I stressed that I didn't want any dog ears, flaps, pockets or tabs of skin! I almost made him laugh! He wrote "FLAT" on my chart and underlined it 3x! He said he couldn't do anything about my back fat (really?) without cutting me all the way around but he would do his best to give me flat scars! :) He stated that we were the easiest cancer counseling he's ever done! Yes, I'm that good!

On the way home, I got to thinking about "Flat Stanley".......anybody remember him? Made me laugh out loud!

His schedule is full until mid-October but he's not concerned about waiting! We had a vacation to South Dakota planned but postponed it because my hubster got sick......he encouraged us to go ahead and take that trip as planned. He said if I was going to opt for reconstruction, it would be even later in the month because it would involve a plastic surgeon, and waiting a couple weeks was not concerning to him at all. So, we are going to check that off our bucket list....seeing those faces on the mountain with my BFF and visiting with some great friends there! It also helps that I'll have something to do besides sit and "wait" for surgery. I'm so excited! My God is good!