biopsy

Went for the biopsy today. It was pretty strange. I had to hold my arms over my head while a young doctor lubed up my breast and did a reasonable amount of groping. Then he used this hollow needle that he shot into my breast pretty much like a staple gun, or getting your ears pierced. Over and over. It was not erotic at all - perhaps if he hadn't used anesthetic. Oh, just joking.

Now I'm sitting in bed with ice on my breast, listening to Flogging Molly. Also not erotic, despite the name, but a good sound. I haven't told my kids about any of this, or my mom either. I think this procedure is innocuous enough that I can disguise any discomfort today and tomorrow, and I should have results by the middle of next week. Probably there will be nothing to tell them.

Here's hoping, Rachel. You will tell us the minute you know anything. Fingers crossed, keep well. x x

We'll be pulling for ya rachel.

I'll be hoping for the best of news for you, but don't worry, my biopsy revealed cancerous cells and in the blink of an eye, I had surgery, and haven't had a problem for the last five years.
Even if they diagnose something, it's not always going to be bad.

I'll be thinking of you, rachel. Please do let us know the results.

Speaking as a cancer survivor, being diagnosed is just about the best thing that can happen to you if you're unlucky enough that your body has already made the mistake and generated a tumour.

Diagnosis means the start of treatment, the start of dealing with it all both emotionally and physically, the start of recovery and the start of the rest of your life.

Crossed fingers that what the biopsy finds is not a dangerous tumour at all, but if it does then well done you on taking yourself for the screening that found it.

I'm speaking as a realist here- you can't change whether you have a tumour, but you can certainly change how you react to it and how you fight and recover from it.

It took me 12 years of treatment to finally get my all clear, but I've finally been discharged by my oncologist now. I've learned so much about myself, what's important to me and my purpose in this life as a result of being ill and my life has been made so much richer by that learning that I can't say I was sorry that I was ill. I like the post cancer me much more than the neurotic, flaky, uptight and stressed me that existed before the big C too ;)

Be well and happy rachel.

Dear one please keep me up to date. please allow me to support you. You are such a jewel. Know that you will be in my prayers.

My prayers are with you hun and my hugs .. i know what this can be like somewhat ...

Last April while sick with pnemonia they found a shadow .. yep they thought it was lung cancer .. Thanks god and i mean that from the heart ..it was just the pnemonia as my left lung was totally full...and the results came back clean...

I can only hope yours comes back clean as well .. know i am thinking of you hun,,

Sends back more hugs to hope it helps...

snow

It looks OK. The doctor says it is fibrous tissue and he wants to do another untrasound in a few months to be sure.

I so much appreciate everyone's comments and PMs, and your prayers too. Apparently there are a lot of things I'll share with this community and not with my R/L one. In this case, while of course I was worried about the results, I do know so many women who've been successfully treated that I wasn't jumping to conclusions even if it would have been something - but I couldn't think of what I could possibly tell my kids. Even if the prognosis was totally great, after what they saw with their father I can't imagine they'd believe anything they were told. I am so immensely relieved and grateful that I don't have to broach this with them at all.

Thank you again for all of your support.

- R.

Thanks so much for keeping us posted and sharing this great news with us.

thank you rachel for sharing with us, so glad to hear that all is well this time around and hopeully around the next time nothing will be there as well or at least it wont grow into anything else... thank you again for sharing!