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I am still not sleeping particularly well and surviving on painkillers so I’m tending to crash by early afternoon.  I went to lay down today, forgot that I couldn’t turn on to my side and ended up in tears from the agony.  I hadn’t long gotten over that when the phone rang.  The call was from Dr Kollias (surgeon) regarding the biopsy results.  The first thing he said was that it was good news.  Hurray – it’s been a while since I’ve had any of that!  Apparently, it looks like he got all of the offending tissue – there were pre-cancerous cells in it although I don’t really know what that means.  I will find out more next week when I have my follow-up appointment.  Best news though, is that no more of the lymph nodes showed any involvement!  He’s now organising my referral to a medical oncologist (Calvary) and a radiation oncologist (RAH – according to him the equipment is “space age” – Dave queried me on that…1960s? funny boy).   I don’t know if that means chemo or not as I believe it usually comes before the radiotherapy.

Now I just have to work on being able to get my arm above my head without the accompanying agony!