New York, New York

Looking forward to meeting all of you ladies.

Okay my breast friends keep your fingers crossed, I had a follow-up MRI at Sloan last Thursday and my BS called to say that another spot enhanced...damn double damn, this will be my 3rd MRI biopsy since June.....she did say that she looked at the results and feels it is probably more LCIS. I do wish The Queen of Hearts would come by and issue the edict "off with her boobs"  I am just a big chicken about surgery.

Omaha, it may be nothing. Ihad a BIRADS 5 that came back b9 once, they did the MRI at the wrong time during my cycle.

Wendy

Thank you so much I really do believe in the power of the collective minds, and we are some very talented women (: so fingers and toes crossed should do it!

Oh GAWD - best wishes OG!!!!!!!!!

Set a tentative date today, Jan 28th for a Guth/Karp remove the bad, smush the good, lift and separate.  Whoever said you feel better after you make a plan is a damned liar.  I'm completely freaking out.  I liked denial a WHOLE lot better.

While I'd like to go to the Boat Show, I'm afraid I'll be too much of a basket case to be around anyone.

Tempted to get on a plane and go see Silverstein at Hoag in SoCal, tempted to say 'screw this' and go with Swistel ("I'm so good I can do two lumpectomies and you'd never even know the dif."), tempted to jump off a bridge but don't want to spend my last few seconds freezing my ass off.

And BTW, my breast STILL hurts after the 2nd biopsy - months later.

PLUS, a woman I'd met at a SHARE meeting called to tell me her DCIS was actually found to be invasive on final path.  Lovely.   

/rant

Omaha,

You'll be in my prayers. You'll be fine.

Omaha, That totally sucks with your MRI. I'll keep my fingers crossed (physical therapy for my elbow!), and say a prayer for you that everything turns out OK.

Sweaty, I'll also be thinking about you, and keeping my fingers crossed that the 28th is a definite date. I found once I got my surgery date, the blur of everything went away, and made it reality, so I know exactly where you're coming from.

I'm still up in the air about dinner on Saturday night. It'll all depend on how much I get beat up this week at physical therapy, and how I feel on Saturday.

Fran..I agree with Flash.Coming out with us to the Boat show would definitely be a fun way to pass the time. Keeping busy is always better than staying home.

Just remember we have all been through so much of this stuff. You can't find a better support network.

Hope to see you..

Francine

Thanks, everyone. 

Don't worry about the freebie-ness.  I still haven't cried over any of this other than a stray tear here and there, and I'm afraid one of these days I'm going to fall apart mega.  I don't want that to happen at the gtg, it's not fair to everyone else.  I was enough of a neurotic attention hog last time.  Let's see how my emotional state goes.  Also, I assume we can add a me to the dinner reservation without much fuss or advance notice, but let me know if that's wrong.

Also, might be running into yet another snag with Guth & Co.  Seems like they're planning on Mammo guided wire placement (not MRI), which makes ZERO sense to me.  The way I see it, either they switch to MRI guided or someone makes a convincing argument for mammo working in my situation.  Hopefully this will be resolved, b/c I can't stand the thought of more surgeon shopping.

One of the two areas, which is shaped like a sperm cell (small clump with v. long, thin tail) is visible ONLY on MRI.  They biopsied the clump (the hole from biopsy would show on mammo, it also has a clip) but there's nothing other than MRI to indicate the location and length of the long tail.

The other area is your average round/oblong clump; the remaining calcs, biopsy defect and clip would all show on mammo.  It would probably be easy to mark and for a surgeon to guesstimate a margin, so I'm not as worried about that one.

None of the disease in my breast shows up on U/S.  Zip, zilch, nada.  Healthy as can be.

Since my only shot at re-excision is mastectomy, I'm hell-bent on getting the sites well marked.  In other words, I don't want to have a mastectomy b/c the tail area of the 'sperm cell shaped disease' got left behind.

F*ck.

Hi, ladies.  Actually, I put 10 tickets to the NY Boat Show in the packet for Cookiegal, so there should be enough for any last minute additions.  Enjoy!

((((((sweaty)))))))