Dr. Sarne

I haven't spoken of Dr. Sarne before.  He is the doctor from Appletree that was key during my diagnosis stage.  I will tell the whole story in detail in another post.  But essentially my family doctor at Appletree was incredibly busy and difficult to get time with, so besides directing me to the first ultrasound she had no important role in my diagnosis - and actually was disappointing, which I will explain when I tell the story.

Dr. Sarne, however, helped me to expedite the follow up mammogram and biopsy, and was the one to deliver the news to Jeff and I.

I sent him a thank you card last week, because I am so thankful he did help me during that critical stage.  With his help I was able to push things along and based on what I know now, it helped me get treatment before it spread too far or to the lymph nodes.

In a way it might have been fate that I went to see him.   Really I had to because my doctor was MIA.  His wife, sister and mother all had breast cancer (and beat it by the way).

He called me yesterday, to thank me for the thank you card. :)  It was actually somewhat triggering to hear his voice again, it brought me back to that difficult time.  He sounded so touched by the card though, and said they would post it on the board at the clinic.