No News is Good News

I went in for a check-up with my surgeon on Wednesday and she gave me a clean bill of health. Well as clean as one can be four months after a cancer diagnosis. I am free to do as I please now, just quarterly check-ups for the next two years. I have no clue how they watch for more cancer as I'm not supposed to have another mammogram until next March and since they couldn't feel this lump I'm not sure they could feel another one. She did release me to go forward with my gastric bypass, but did warn me that doctor may make me wait for a while. I e-mailed him this week and he said he would look into my cancer and see what the appropriate protocol would be, so not a rousing "let's do it!" but not a resounding "no" either. I am optimistic that if I am patient we will be able to move forward in the not too distant future, hopefully. She did explain the highest rate of recurrence is in the first two years and you are not officially cured until you reach the ten year mark cancer free, so this really is a dour diagnosis but there is really no point on dwelling on that side of things as I feel pretty good and am ready to move forward. I just don't know which way to go, oh well, at this point it's just one day at a time.