Very important results

Friday is the day the pathology tests are reviewed and patients are given their results, together with the form of treatment needed, depending on the outcome.

Not everybody has to wait the three days; some are advised of the outcome soon after surgery, when it is obvious they will need to be placed in a treatment program.  Others will wait the three days to see whether any destructive cells are concealed in another area not too far from the original site.  Not a particularly happy prospect but one which needs to be considered.

In the late afternoon Assistant Surgeon Jones breezes in and in short order delivers the results; happily for me the outcome is a good one.   She assures me I will not be needing any further treatment but will be placed in a check-up program; the commencement date will be given to me when I come back to the clinic in six weeks time.

It takes a little while for the news to sink in and become reality; all that time of waiting and worrying about the outcome is now behind me.  I lay quietly on the bed, digesting the good news, before I allow myself to deliver a mental air-punch.

In the early evening the Surgeon General, who had informed me prior to surgery of the outcome success rating, arrived and repeated, more or less, the good news delivered earlier on by A/S Jones

Time to start calling the support team and giving them the good news now.