After the biopsy...
After the consultation with Dr. Hakim...
After the lab tests...
After the appointment with Dr. Malviya...
...which was today...
Now, I am waiting for the next step.
I did (happily) learn that last Thursday's CT scan did not show that cancer had spread.
So far, the cancer appears "well-differentiated", which one likes to hear.
Dr. Malviya also had blood work done today.
(Check that off my list.)
Now, he will look at my "slides" and get a more precise understanding.
And he will talk with Dr. Hakim (my gyn).
He may even find an earlier surgery date - which I would love!
No matter how "well-differentiated" that cancer appears, no one wants to leave it there!
So now, I am waiting for someone to call me back with the next step.
(Tomorrow, the next day? Unknown.)
(Not passively waiting. I'm calling tomorrow.)
By the way, as it turns out, there was no time for finishing novels
(or doing homework)
at the oncologist appointment today.
Since I was a new patient, there was not a long wait at all.
"For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face.
Now I know only in part;
then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.
And now faith, hope, and love abide...."
I Corinthians 13:12-13a
