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Today was the radiology follow-up. And the radiologist doesn't want to see me for a whole year! My skin looks great, I have to watch out for sunburn, take it easy with the left arm, and let her know if anything changes. "Anything" means a sudden increase in breast density, a sudden decrease in breast size (as if!), pain in the chest wall, constant coughing (and how I'm supposed to tell this apart from my regular constant coughing, I don't know), or, God forbid, a heart attack.
Unfortunately, she also told me that all my doctors at Dana-Farber were notified that my treatment was complete nearly a month ago, and none of them have contacted me about follow-up. So I made some calls. I have one appointment set up with the surgeon at 7:30 AM (EEK) on March 20th, and the oncologist's admin should call me back soon.
Which had better be tomorrow, or the patient advocate at D-F will be hearing from me again.
Oh yes -- new picture, this time with actual hair. It's coming in silver on the sides and dark on top, but the lighting in my study doesn't show the dark hair well. I went without a hat to church yesterday, and most everyone was flattering.
And I think it's true that, as I've noticed when looking at pictures in a Mennonite friend's high school yearbook, or the faces of nuns, or even the faces of observant Muslim women -- when the eye is not distracted by hair, you can really see the person in the face. Not that my face is particularly lovely, but it doesn't need to be.
