What a summer!
I hope this finds you and yours well and enjoying the summer! When I wrote the last post, I was excited to be going to see Dr. Song, an ENT Surgeon in CO. It was a very interesting meeting to me - to have a doctor describe himself as a "trained monkey" three different times and tell me flatly that he will forget me the minute he walks out the door so it's now or never and on his schedule or not at all. I got tearful and told him I was trying not to get emotional on him. He softened a bit and I explained about the once-in-a-lifetime trip coming up with our kids and grandkids. He found a date we could both do, after the trip, and I was happy. He was to take the left cervicle node and he wanted to biopsy the tonsils which would be very uncomfortable with a high chance of bleeding. Ugh. A few days later I got a message from Dr. Haverkos, the T-cell Lymphoma specialist at Univ. of CO Health. He told me that they could not send tissues to Dr. Nagourney in Long Beach be...