Saturday, May 21, 2011

Monday May 16th. Happy Birthday MAZ. :)

Yippee its Monday.
Finally I will get the appointment and have some answers.
Call the Dr.(ob/gyn) at 9:05 am. Leave a message. Call back again and this time I ask to speak to someone. I'm not leaving another message. I finally speak to Kelly? No idea who she is. Yes they got the report and they are going to set up an appointment with a surgeon they use in the Washington Twp. area. She'll call me back.
I ask if "Kelly" can fax me the report.
She says " Sure whats your fax number"
I wait before I leave for the store, I hear the fax printing, go upstairs. and of course our fax prints last page first. So the last line I see is Biraids 5 " Highly suggestive of Malignancy: Appropriate action should be taken immediately.
AWESOME!

No appointments until May 23rd. As you can see this would be a week from today. This is unacceptable. I'm not waiting!
I call my sister-in-law Stephanie. She's in a meeting but answers the phone anyway. (she is a very important Dr. for Johns Hopkins). Not really but it sounds good.
I fax her my report. I am assuming she either makes some calls or takes the report around to an actual Dr.'s to look at.
Turns out they have whats called John Hopkins Avon Foundation Breast Center.
Its all done in one location. Wow...What a concept!
She speaks to a women called a Nurse Navigator, Mary Capano (fellow pison, well her husband is.)
Steph gives me Mary's # and I call her. She knows who I am?
Very long story short, Mary gets my report from Steph and Immediately brings it to Dr. Khaouri, the director of breast imaging and intervention.
By 3:00 that day I had an appointment for biopsy the next day at 1:30.
I'm thinking Mary's my own personal angel.

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