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Dr Maurer, Mary Jo’s surgeon examined Mary Jo today at 11:45am in his Burnsville office. We assumed he was going to perform a needle aspiration of the one centimeter size lump in Mary Jo’s right armpit area per the recommendation of Dr Thacker from the Ridges Hospital ER staff. Dr Maurer said he could perform the procedure in his office but recommended that the best method would be to have a radiologist from the Women’s Imaging Center perform the procedure with the aid of ultrasound guided imaging.

Dr Maurer made the arrangements for Mary Jo. Tomorrow she will have an image guided fine needle biopsy and path report along with the image guided needle aspiration to attempt to drain what is suspected to be a fluid filled void. Dr Maurer assumes the lump is most consistent with an inflamed fat deposit or a inflamed but broken away dead cancer tissue lymph node because of the quick onset and the associated pain without redness at the site. We hope to be able to see a path report from the biopsy before we go into the holiday weekend to confirm what Dr Maurer suspects. 

Mary Jo is continuing to improve from the last cycle of chemo. Each day she feels a little less tired and has a very positive outlook. We pray that Dr Maurer’s assumptions are correct and this new lump turns out to be nothing serious.

We are both looking forward to a New Year and want to be the first to wish all of you Peace, Health and Happiness in 2010.