BAM! |
However, the Fourth of July is four months away, and I’ve
already waiting a long time, longer than the 6-12 months recommended by Dr
Escargot. Last week I tried to reach his secretary to tell her that the wait
was excessive, and I wasn’t being as ‘carefully monitored’, as I had expected
to be. I spoke only to her answering machine. Monday morning I tried again, and
realizing that she would never call me back, went down to the hospital and
walked into her office.
BANG |
KABOOM |
I walked over to mammo-land. They asked if June would work. I rolled my eyes. She scrolled through her appointment book and said ‘April 18?’ I told her I’d be out of town, but said, ‘I’m free tomorrow’. So she scrolled some more, made a little frowny face, and said, ‘8:30?’
Done!
What followed yesterday morning was a mammo, then another
mammo (they found something suspicious that turned out to be scar tissue) and
finally an ultrasound that brought back so many bad memories that I nearly leapt off the table and ran down the hall topless, and covered in jelly. But I
didn’t.
I went to straight to Escargot, who had already read the
mammo online, and talked to the ultrasound doc, and said everything was absolutely
clear. ‘But,’ said Dr Escargot in his soft Spanish accent, ‘We are steel going
to try for an earlier date’.
Fine. Half of me just want to get this over with. But the
other half wants to celebrate Independence Day by being independent of my old
breast tissue. Psychologically, I also like the fact that there will be so much
going on with our neighbours to the south that it makes my surgery seem smaller
(And more manageable) in comparison.
But mostly I just want fireworks.