Finding out the pathology results for the bone biopsy took longer than normal due to the Jewish holiday - Rosh Shoshana. It appears that a large percentage of the professional staff at Cedars is Jewish so the lab took longer. It's also apparently a difficult test and requires great skill. When I heard that I was thinking that I would rather wait than have somebody screw it up. We didn't hear the results until the following Monday. This delay caused quite the anxiety ridden weekend I can assure you but again, I counted it as a blessing as in the recent past - all the bad news had been on Fridays.
Monday morning around 7am the doctor called and left a VM stating that all was clear and I was on for the October 19th surgery. You can imagine the gambit of questions and emotions that flooded my mind in those brief nanoseconds. First was Thank God!, the second was "well what the hell is it then?", followed by, "what do you mean we're on now? Does that mean if it was bone cancer you wouldn't have done the surgery?" I never did get to speak to the doctor about the actual results until a couple weeks later at my last pre-op check in. He said, "Oh, it was nothing, probably a thickening of the bone. We both saw it there and the radiologist is the best but we had to check it out." I was a little miffed by his sort of cavalier attitude since it was hell for us but I suppose this is routine for them.
Did I tell you what his secretary told me on two different occasions when I was looking for results on the bone biopsy? She said, You need to not think about it, just drink more.... That was a prescription I could take, so I did.
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