Waiting on a biopsy

Redcanoe

Hi, I am here because I'm now very anxious while waiting to have a biopsy.

I am a 34 year old nursing student and this past winter we learned breast self examination. I found nothing. This summer, with diet and exercise, I lost 50 pounds. Two weeks ago, a post on Facebook reminded me it was time to do a breast self examination. My breasts are very different after losing weight and I found a lump in my right breast. I wasnt too concerned actually, I am not high risk at all, no family history, I've had 4 babies and breastfed a total of 8 years (my youngest has been wened for 2 years). I made a GP appointment though and she referred me for a diagnostic mammogram and ultrasound out of an abundance of caution.

During the mammogram, the tech kept leaving to see if the radiologist wanted more pictures. Many pictures were taken. Then I did the ultrasound and she left to get the radiologist to palpate the lump himself and then redid the ultrasound in front of him. He was very kind but he basically said I needed a biopsy right away, it is definitely not a cyst and it runs in my family right?

I live in far Northern Canada. There is no breast center here. I've been referred to the general surgery department to do the biopsy. He called them immediately (on Thursday) and I was told they would call me to set up a time within 7 days. So I'm just waiting to have the biopsy, not even waiting on results yet and now I'm starting to get more and more anxious about it. I dont have a radiology report or a birads score. I did take pictures of the screens when they were out of the room but I KNOW im not qualified to interpret them and I'm trying not to.

I will be following up tomorrow if I dont hear from them. Ironically, my clinical placement this semester is ...general surgery.

I have been keeping my anxiety in check but it is getting worse and worse.

I'm not sure what I am asking here but I need to get this out.