Looks like from now on I will have a special reason to celebrate Thanksgiving “eve” as well as Thanksgiving itself...just got a call from UCSF with the results of my pathology report, and it’s great news: all clear! I repeat, Houston, we are clear. Clear margins on the tumor (and on the extra bit of DCIS found nearby), and clear lymph nodes. They are going to re-run the estrogen receptor test just to doublecheck the original biopsy results (which said the tumor was estrogen-positive, which is a good thing), but it would be unlikely to find it different this time through. UCSF just likes to have their own labs do the checking, I suspect (like when they made me do another ultrasound there when I’d already had one in Marin).
Wheeeeeew. The journey’s not over yet, of course, but this is absolutely the news I wanted to hear and I am super thankful. :)