Port goes in Friday...

We met Dr. Masehwari today. He's very thorough, but I was worried at first that he wasn't going to get things done fast enough. Once we talked about how quickly I need this to get started, I was completely reassured. He called Dr. Glaser (who did my biopsy) to put my port in & Dr. Glaser REFUSED to do it. His reasoning (according to Dr. M) was that I went to MD Anderson & he didn't like it &/or wasn't completely informed of my every move. I was SO MAD!!! Dr. M then called Dr. Schell (did Andrew's emergency splenectomy) from the same group, but with seniority. Dr. Schell scheduled me in about 5 minutes for my port on Friday. I called Dr. Briones (OB/gyn) to try to schedule my pre-chemo ultrasound. At 730 Friday morning we have to be at the hospital for my ultrasound. Then at 830 I check in for my port, but don't actually go in for the surgery until 1030. Once I got the port scheduled today I had to call Dr. M back to let him know so he can hopefully schedule my chemo to start ASAP. I'm going to call his office tomorrow to see if I can convince him to start my chemo Friday. The up-side (or down-side depending on how you look at it) to starting so soon is that my pump won't be in yet, so I'll have to be admitted to the hospital for 3 days. I'm kind of wanting that though b/c it would set my mind at ease to be under constant supervision for this first treatment. I'm very afraid of this 1st treatment, so I'd like to have as much supervision as possible. The down-side is of course being in the hospital all that time. At least my insurance is good though.