3 Questions

We are asked to discuss three questions with the nurse before seeing the oncologist. All pertain to describing your feelings in the past week. Now keep in mind I am exhausted and in pain and anxious as hell about seeing the oncologist, who will deliver my fate.

Question 1. Your level of fatigue, on average? Ok, this is easy. I am tired. I just had major surgery, and am on a lot of medication. I probably doze off 4 or 5 times a day.

Question 2. Your degree of pain, on average? Now I am a little annoyed with the nurse. Again, I just went through major surgery and am on 8 different medications, which 6 are for pain. I would say my pain is above average.

Question 3. Your overall quality of life this week? WHAT??? Again, nurse, I have cancer!  I just had my tits chopped off and we are unable to start reconstruction because of complications. How the hell do you think my week is going? Are you asking me if I am ready to jump out the window? What exactly are you asking? She got up and left the room.

After this rocky start the oncologist came in and basically told us he was kicking us out and didn't want to see me again. Not because I pissed off his nurse but because the team all agreed that the surgery was a success and they got all the cancer. The pathologist reviewed it three times and they feel confident I do not need chemo. I looked at Chris and asked him if he thought I should apologize to the nurse because my week just got a whole lot better.