CalPeg is having an operation, in case you didn't know

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CaliforniaPeggy (156,480 posts) Wed Feb 25, 2026, 06:20 PM
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FINALLY. I have a surgery date. [View all]

For those of you who may not remember the back story, here's a couple of links:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1036153011

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220893845

Apparently, scheduling a surgery takes longer than you might expect. But there are various things that need to happen before scheduling. For instance, the drug I'm on (Tagrisso) needs to be on board for 90 days. I just passed that date a few days ago. Also, an appropriate hospital needs to be on the list (it is.) and the doctor doing the surgery needs to have privileges there, which she does.

I don't yet have a time when the surgery will start. But the day is definitely fixed:

MONDAY, MARCH 16TH, 2026.

There are other small procedures to be done, but this is the important one.

Now, I need to ready myself, my psyche and my body, for this unprecedented surgery. I've never had a surgery like this before and it looks a little scary. All my joint replacements got to be routine. This is not.

As I did before, I will give each response a rec when I've read it.

My love and thanks to all of you!

I think she's having an Achingseedectomy. Unclear from the post.



Funny, over 70 replies and not one is sarcastically howling about "must be nice to have insurance" and all the other shit they spew when a Republican goes under the knife.

Anyway, the world would be less hilarious without CalPeg and her terrible poetry, so godspeed, Peg.

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She has a particular variety of lung cancer which that drug is a treatment. W'pedia's article is opaque med-jargon, to me at least, but apparently it either stops tumor growth or causes tumor shrinkage. This drug and a particular type of chemotherapy agent is used for cancers that have spread, so that she is having surgery may be a good indicator for her.

... not one is sarcastically howling about "must be nice to have insurance" and all the other shit they spew when a Republican goes under the knife.

DU-grade Progs' standards are partisanly double.

I won't apologize for having a company health plan. It's part of the compensation I get for my work, experience, and education. So my response to a DU-grade Prog would be, "Yes, it is nice, and I earned it."