Tic toc tic toc....

November 30, 2015

It has been 4 days since my mammo and ultrasound and I do not have the results yet.  I am at the clinic with my mom on this early morning, she has no idea what is going on, my cellphone rings and my heart skips a beat.  I move out of the room and take the call, it is my GP letting me know that he received the results and that a biopsy is strongly recommended. A tumor like mass of 1cm x 2.4cm was found with a possible travel to the lymph node.  At this point I feel my eyes water up and information is fed to me but not grasped. All I understood was that my results would be sent to the breast clinic at the RVH (Glen) and that they would contact me for the appointment within a few days. So we wait.........

December 2, 2015

My husband is impatient at this point and calls my doctor to find out how long before the RVH will call us.  The secretary calls me and tells me that I have to go the RVH and bring them personally by results and reports as well as CD of the mammo and ultrasound.  This is at 10am and I am told it has to be done before noon or I will have to wait until the following Monday. I leave work in a hurry, thank God I had all my papers with me and head straight to the Breast Clinic to drop off documents they should already have.  Of course when I get there, they have no knowledge of my documents and they tell me that it won't be before mid-January 2016 for a biopsy appointment.  I thought to myself, are they freaken nuts....

I went back to the office and decide to ask for help from my boss in trying to get an earlier appointment  at another hospital.  At the same time I contacted Cite de la Sante and asked how to go about getting a breast biopsy.  I faxed all the information and reports directly to the Breast Clinic.  The request at the Jewish was put in quickly and I personally dropped off the papers on December 4, 2015. They informed me that it would be triaged and that they would contact me according to priority......obviously I felt I was priority but I understood that there are worse cases.