Jeez, crikey and Ffffflip (I’m using polite expletives!!) Miss Green
I can’t believe your misfortune - you poor woman, my heart truely goes out to you. It doesn’t surprise me that you were “a little more forceful”, after your 2nd scare being another positive one, when you thought it may just be scar tissue. Am guessing that was found to be another separate primary from the 1st then?? as you weren’t given chemo. But now another.
Perhaps your feeling “quite calm” is probably down to feeling “a bit of an old hand” by now, so to speak, previous experience and all that. But yeh, of course, you must feel naturally scared again as well.
After a mastectomy in 2006, I was shocked, when only a year later I was diagnosed with a new primary in my other boob. I’d felt a small lump near my armpit, brought it to attention at my annual check, had it ultrasounded and it was dismissed as a group of cysts by the ultrasound radiologist/doctor. Thankfully my consultant was as conscienciously suspicious as he was, and carried out a core biopsy which showed another cancerous tumour lying underneath the cysts, otherwise it probably wouldn’t have been caught so early. I could have had a lumpectomy, but my attitude after my 1st boob was - no thanks, get rid of the whole thing again, less chance of anything further developing.
None of that compares to your experience though, in that you, like most women, would likely think :-
I’ve had a mastectomy, so NO chance of it coming back, because there’s NO breast tissue left. So now lets get some of my old body shape back, have recon and THAT’S THE END OF THAT. Draw a line under the whole nasty experience and get back to living again.
Totally understandable then, that you’d think a tiny lump, 11 yrs later would just be scar tissue. But Nooo, it wasn’t.
Then 3yrs later and another lump - and NOOOO, that wasn’t either.
Fffffflip Miss Green. We’re all lead to think/believe mastectomies remove all the breast tissue and therefore remove any possibility of further future BC in the area. So what’s that all about then?? you must be asking. Me and thousands of others now too.
My dear friend, thank you so much for your post, at a time when you’re so upset and burdened with what’s happening to you. Despite your need to post support wise, it’s also extremely thoughtful of you and highly educational to zillions of us on here.
I soooo hope your scans are all clear. Please will you let us know. Keeping EVERYthing crossed for you flower, and that 2018 WILL turn out to be a good year for you.
Sending you much love, healing thoughts and an extra special warm, long and tight Delly hug. xxxxxxx