Best of luck for tomorrow Helen!!! Here’s hoping it was all a bad dream, or at a minimum, that they don’t find anything else and your good breast is still “good”!
???
Everything crossed for you Helenann xx
You are all so fabulous - thank you for all your support and encouragement - you’ve all got me this far and I’m SO grateful.
Good luck tomorrow and hope Bobby Ewing is there supply much needed tea and cake ???
I went on holiday 2 weeks after my surgery and all was ok. Had to wear flight socks just in case.
I also rang my insurance company to let them know as i was worried they’d make my insurance null and void. Thankfully it all stood but they couldn’t cover me for anything related to the BC as it hadn’t been 6 weeks since my surgery.
Let your team know your dates and if they are anything like mine, they said don’t change your plans till the need arises.
GOOD LUCK!!!
Been awake since about 4.00am - ended up getting up at 5.00am had tea and toast then back to bed at 6.00am - got about another 15 mins sleep. Feeling shattered now- going to work - busy morning ahead then to hospital for MRI results at 2.50. Fingers crossed ???
Thanks Maria- I’ll let you know how I get on. Thanks for all your fantastic support ?xxx
Hi Ladies - well good and bad news for me - the good news first - my ‘good’ breast is OK nothing shown up. The bad news - they’ve found another lump in my ‘bad’ breast after the MRI - this needed a biopsy, so had that biopsied today. The Consultant said if this ‘new’ lump is cancerous then I will have to have a full mastectomy, as it is too far away from the ‘main’ cancer - if its benign it will be a lumpectomy and radiotherapy. I’ll get the results from this biopsy on 3rd September and will know then which it will be. I’m going to have the operation (whichever it is) on 24 the September.
So to finish on a positive note more good news is that they were great when I told them about my booked holiday and they went out of their way to schedule all future appointments and the op around my holiday. France - here I come.???
Helenann
I wish you strength and some inner peace. You have done all you can for now, know all that you can for now, and whenever you look in on the Forum someone will be here, whenever you need.
Safe journeys, Bon Voyage, and give yourself the vacances you deserve !!! xx
Been haunting the forum waiting for your post, ? - so glad you have your hols, (and what, not in Dallas ? ?) - hope you really enjoy France…
Your ‘good and bad’ news is encouraging too, (a bit similar to me, didn’t know at point of operation whether it was to be a mastectomy !), hope it’s good news on 3rd September…but before then, chill, enjoy your holiday, a well-deserved break !
As Paulus said, Bon Voyage, bonnes vacances (and bonne chance for September…)
xxx
Hello Helenann,
Is it tomorrow for your second lot of MRI results ? ( I know you have op scheduled for 24th, it’s coinciding with my own appointment with oncologist, hope it’s a happy-and-all-goes-well coincidence for us both ! )
Anyway, thinking of you and I do hope tomorrow goes well, have you been to France yet ?
XX
Hi Helen
Second lot of fingers being crossed for you ! Sure plenty of others on here will be doing the same…lots of fingers…
Best of luck ??!
xxx
Helen (Thistle)
PS - am doing ok, thanks! Xx
Hi - well it’s not the best of news- I will be having a mastectomy. I’ve been advised that the whole breast is ‘unstable’ - I was told if I really wanted to continue to try and preserve my breast they could do more biopsies - an MRI guided biopsy - but it was felt it was only delaying the inevitable and I would end up having to a have mastectomy in the end in any event and as this has been being investigated for 6 weeks already it was only delaying things further.
So had a good chat with my BCN, Donna (who is so lovely) and my husband and we have decided to not keep on with further investigations and go ahead with a full right breast mastectomy.
Chemo can’t be ruled out at this stage either and I will be on some drug therapy for about 5 years.
I have to say I feel quite relieved in a way to have the decision made and a plan in place.
So, post op assesment on Monday - to France on holiday on Tuesday - going to have the best time ever - then back home on 22nd Sept ready to get rid of this ‘thing’ on 24th Sept and get on with living.?
Hi Helen,
Oh well, but as you say, it’s a relief to know what’s what & to have a plan in place, as ever, the uncertainty when waiting for investigations & results is always the worst bit.
Have a wonderful holiday, then come back raring to go!
ann x
Hello there
Right, so it looks like they are going to do what’s best for you… I was fully prepared for a mastectomy and didn’t know until I came out of the op whether I’d had one or not, but I got lots of wonderful reassurance on here as to how easy it was, so take heart like I did, from those lovely people who’ve been there, - it’ll be OK.
It’s going to get sorted on the 24th, right enough, so concentrate on that being the next step to kicking this, but for the moment, hey, put it to the back of your mind and enjoy that holiday… and yes, you have the best time …?..
Well done, you are getting there!
Xxx
Hi Maria- thanks so much for this. The article is very helpful. I’d rather be safe than sorry - so after talking it over with my husband and BCN I am sure it’s the right decision to have a mastectomy. I didn’t really want to go through more biopsies - I HATED them - only to be told I needed a mastectomy anyway and only delaying things further. It might have been a case of having one surgery now then needing the mastectomy anyway in 6 or 12 months time- so just want it all gone now. I’m not worried as such about losing a breast if it means the cancer has gone- I’m a bit vain but My future is more important to me- if that makes sense? Hope your MRI scan goes ok - let us know how you get on.
Once again - thank you all for your fantastic support and encouragement- don’t know what I would have done without this forum.???
Hi helenann, I got my diagnosis mid August and saw the oncologist last week. My meltdown came on Saturday. I’m always the strong one, and broke everything to facts and although it is all a lot to take in it all seemed “in order” . My biggest concern is for those around me and that fitted in with my persona… Until Saturday… when I had the “hang on a minute” moment. It is suddenly very real, thus time next week I may feel awful (I start chemo thursday), I’m waiting for tests on the other breast and I my chemo will end with a full mastectomy finale… reality is awful. I had my meltdown in private (so as not to upset anyone) as I didn’t know whether I was sad, angry, scared or frustrated.probably all if them. However I had a good talk to myself; you will have a Plan, I’m going to take the proverbial deep breath and March on. This is why I joined this group yesterday, so as not to bother those around me with worries and to talk to those who know so much more. I really hope the experience of others will help on a hard day. But intend to share the good days too xx I’m sure there will be some of those xx we are walking the path together xx
Dearest Scatterbrain, great big massive hugs to you xxxx Its all a pile of poo at this stage, but you’re in the right place to come in and rant/scream/swear/vent.
We all have a different diagnosis and treatment plan but no matter what, there is always someone here in the forum who understands.
Just let it out love xx
Hello Scatterbrain,
So sorry you have joined this horrible exclusive club, but yes, you’ve come to the right place to find support… No one can possibly be strong all the time, but you have done amazingly well so far, (I was a mess…) so I have to say I really admire you…!
Keep in there with that attitude, one step at a time, and you will do it for sure.
Sending very best wishes and positive thoughts…
Thistle xx
Hi Maria- well we seem to have nearly the exact same. The area I need removing is about 45mm. I am ER+ and HER2-. I was confused about grade and stage like you but at my last appointment my BCN explained it all to me. I have grade 1 - which is good (if anything about all this can ever be described as good ?) and at the moment it looks like stage 1 as it looks like its all contained in my breast. They won’t know actual stage until after the op when it all goes off to pathology. I am having 3 noded taken at same time of mastectomy on 24th Sept. I’ve decided to have reconstruction straight away to hopefully avoid a 2nd op. My BCN said if I needed radiotherapy after op it would most likely be targeted to under arm where lymph nodes are. Don’t know about chemo until pathology results are in.
Sending love to all from the sunny South of France (I know I shouldn’t be on this forum while I’m away on holiday but it’s very hard to switch off?)xxx
I’ve just been reading back to this thread I started 3 months ago - I’ve come so far as here I am post surgery, well on my way to my reconstruction after right mastectomy with immediate reconstruction tissue expander, started on Letrozole and feeling positive rather than sad.
So anyone newly diagnosed who is feeling in despair take heart - you do get there.???