While I was still reeling from my Thursday radiation oncology appointment and being told that I would probably need chemo, I had another blow the next day (Friday). My cell phone rang while I was sitting at my computer at the school district office. When I answered it, I was surprised to hear the voice of Dr. Astrid Morris, the radiation oncologist I'd met earlier in the week at Swedish Hospital. She was calling to tell me that the Swedish pathologists had gone over the reports sent to them by my Mount Vernon doctors. She said that the margins around my tumor were NOT 2mm (as had been reported), but more like 1.5mm. She said that 2mm is the absolute minimum required. At first, I wasn't quite sure what she was telling me. I thought that she was telling me that because of the difference, I wouldn't be qualified for the Mammosite procedure. So I told her that I'd already decided against the Mammosite treatment. She told me, "No, I'm saying that you can't go forward with chemo or radiation or ANYTHING until you have re-excision surgery to get bigger margins. There is too high a chance of recurrence with these kind of margins. We usually like to see 5mm margins."