Hi! Having now finally sat through my six month wait to hear of my mammogram spot is a nothing or a something, I am finally back to the clinic tomorrow. Obviously anxious: If it’s nothing, then OK; if they want to continue to monitor (another 6 months) I think I will crawl up nearest wall; if it’s a something then at long last I will know. But at least by now I feel sufficiently better informed to be able to ask some questions that I didn’t ask last time, such as what was it about that pic that made them feel the need to follow up? And can anyone at the clinic give me a percentage of risk of it being something? I hope tomorrow the uncertainty will be at an end. The six months have been hard, though not every minute of every day, and I certainly have got on with things. Noticed myself getting more irritable in the last week or so, when I knew the appt was imminent (found out last Friday, by phone, rather than letter due to the weather).
Hello Aquinnah, Oh I can imagine the turmoil you are in but just wanted to wish you all the best for tomorrow. Write down ALL your questions tonight and take them with you so that you do not forget to ask something. Tell them how hard it has been for you and how you have been feeling. If they still want to monitor you they could perhaps make it a shorter period of time…I think 3 months is just about bearable. Come back on here and let us know how you got on. LOve Val
Hello Aquinnah, Oh I can imagine the turmoil you are in but just wanted to wish you all the best for tomorrow. Write down ALL your questions tonight and take them with you so that you do not forget to ask something. Tell them how hard it has been for you and how you have been feeling. If they still want to monitor you they could perhaps make it a shorter period of time…I think 3 months is just about bearable. Come back on here and let us know how you got on. LOve Val
Good luck for tomorrow Aquinnah, be thinking of you
monica x
hi Aquinnah - will be thinking of you tomorrow xxxxx
Aquinnah - Good luck from me, too. I remember reading your posts before. Was that 6 months ago?!
Ann x
Yes, indeed, since I had the first visit to the Breast Imaging Unit (as they call it here), it just at the end of June. but it was in September I posted on here. It is a tad nerve wracking, but with a bit of luck it will all just in the end be a big nothing. Or if it is a something it should still be a very small something. So I am crossing my own fingers. Can also understand my own intermittent short temperedness of the last few days, not that me understanding it makes it any better for people around me, who are in the firing line…Ohm well, never mind. roll on tomorrow!
Phew!!! It is OK!!! It turns out it was a lump, but it is shrinking. So not cancerous.
This has highlighted things for me: I was probably a bit too reticent about asking. Not at the time in June, as I really didn’t have the right questions ready. I then googled away, as you do, and decided it was micro calcifications, but I was wrong. It was your actual lump, just not a bad one. I am so lucky! But also feel I have got away with a whisker! Which is of course enough, but certainly today it has left me feeling I MUST ask for help more often! I had a bruise on my left breast just before Christmas and it was followed by a lump. I didn’t see the GP then as I knew I was going to the unit so soon. (and did have it checked today, but it was largely gone now). But would I have otherwise? Don’t know. Perhaps too good at talking myself out of it, so I don’t feel I have wasted people’s time. Food for thought for me, as I have not only not asked advice on the whole, but also not gone to friends for support. I have largely kept it to myself. You lot have been WONDERFUL!!! Back in September it made such a difference!
Anyway, though I am not likely to be on here so often, I will come back and look sometime. And I wish all of you who are coping with cancers and illness all the best! Thinking of you all and your generosity in supporting others, like me, in our anxiety.
Aquinnah
That’s wonderful news! I remember how worried you were, as are we all when awaiting results, but you had such a long time to get worked up. Well done on coping. I sincerely hope you have no need to ask for more advice, but you know you will get support here if you do.
Good luck for the future!
Love Ann xxx