Wednesday -- Gonna Be A Long Day

The schedule for this week is set and everything is happening in one day....I just hope it's not too much.

Wednesday, July 16---

• 9:00 AM: CT guided liver biopsy at NYU Medical Center
• 2:30 PM: another biopsy of the breast tumor, most likely a core biopsy @ NYU Cancer Institute
  
• 4:00 PM: meet with a urologist at his office 2 blocks away from NYUCI

I have a hotel booked for Wednesday night so we don't have to drive all the way home afterwards. The liver biopsy has me the most nervous with regard to how Mom will be. It's the most invasive of everything and while the procedure is about 20-30 minutes, she has to lie still for 1-2 hours afterwards so they can monitor her pain and the healing process of the liver itself--essentially, make sure the liver doesn't bleed.

What I hate most about everything is actually all the waiting--talk about the proverbial "hurry up and wait" scenario. Wednesday is only 3.5 days from now and it feels like it is years away. I am the world's biggest control freak (all of you reading this know this as pure fact) and I do better with knowing details and moving forward along paths of action. I simply hate NOT KNOWING what we're dealing with.

So I'm preparing for the worse and hoping/praying for the best......shit.