Got the Plan

As with most things, a good sit-down with my ob/gyn was all I needed to get things sorted out. It would be nice if know-better-than-the-person-who-had-cancer nurses would stay out of the middle, but whatever.

My ob/gyn is taking charge of my yearly breast screenings, and she does agree that my situation requires a mammogram and a MRI.

She showed me the pictures from my last ultrasound that showed no suspicious cysts on the ovaries. With that and knowing I'm not BRAC+, we decided to discontinue every-six month ultrasounds.

We did decide to do a yearly endometrial biopsy to check for endometrial cancer as a result of the tamoxifen. This doesn't happen very often, but there was a very small chance that I should have gotten bc too.

Anyway, it feels like a solid and reasonable program, and I'm happy to know my ob/gyn is behind it 100%.

Maybe Movement Tomorrow

It's been well over two weeks now that I've been trying to get a doctor to endorse an acceptable yearly breast screening program for me and to schedule an MRI as part of it.

I have an appt. with my ob/gyn tomorrow. I scheduled it months ago to go over my pelvic ultrasound scans. Now I guess I'll also be bringing up the breast screening question.

Basically, I want to know who usually schedules and follows up on yearly breast checks. And, if it's the ob/gyn as I suspect, why that can't be the case for me.

If she isn't behind the mammo/MRI combo, I'll just ask her if she'd be okay with just a mammogram after one couldn't find two, 2.5 cm. cancer lumps in her breast.

I'll keep you posted.