Countdown to Surgery
After six weeks of waiting, during which my mass has undoubtedly grown so large that it will no longer fit in one of those “tiny houses” that everyone wants to retire to, I am having surgery in six days, and soon many questions can be answered. How far has the cancer traveled in the lymph system? Do I have the kind of cancer that is slower-growing and doesn’t respond to chemo (Oncotype-dx under 16) or the kind that is fast-growing…