It would be nearly impossible

Thanks, Beau, for your wise way of looking at things. I will certainly be thinking and praying for you tomorrow as you go through your bone scan. I've gone through a few of those. I hope its all clear. Let's keep in touch as we go through our scans together.

Carla

Dear Beau, I'm so glad that everything is clear!! And how cool that they called you this evening to let you know and not make you wait. But now what? I know that I've been having a "challenging" time with lower back pain, and bone scans say "no cancer". So, I figure that its the lack of estrogen in my body along with arthritis. -all of which began after chemo. So, I try to swim, ride a stationary bike and walk. Sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn't. I also try to do stretching exersizes in the morning to help me move easier.

Deanna and Donna, thank you so much for your encouragement, thoughts, and prayers. My sister is going to pick me up tomorrow morning and it will be a 2 hour procedure just getting to all the little nodules and lumps and examining them as they go along. My sister is also BRCA2+ and has gone through cancer as well. She had her bilateral mastectomy and reconstruction done in June of last year, and I had mine in August. So we both drove eachother to follow up appts and to have dressing changes and all that. I'm hoping that she can be in the room as they do all this poking around tomorrow. The more and more I think about this, the more I believe that these will be all fat necrosis of some sort. 

I will fill you in about how it goes tomorrow. Thanks again for your reasurrance and support.

Holding on to "the impossible" theory,

Carla

The craziest thing happened today. I got to the breast center for the biopsis and learned that they had received a message to cancel my appt. from my onc. office  and  I was confused. So, I guess what happened is that due to a CT  chest report that my onc had found from my last visit from my surgeon, he changed his mind about my needing an ultra sound, not knowing that I had already gotten it done. So in his  mind, he was calling to have the original ultra sound cancelled. But when the breast center explained that I should be getting biopsis done b/c of what was found at the ultra sound he changed his mind. So, I was rescheduled for Thursday morning at 9am.  So..... now I have to go again, and wait a whole weekend again before I hear results. Evidently my onc's office had left a couple of messages yesterday but they didn't show up on my cell phone until today. I had my phone by my side all afternoon and evening and I never heard it ring. (If you can help it, don't every get Sprint).  I'm not happy but there is nothing I can do. I'm just really glad that my sister has the time to bring me on Thursday too. But of course, it makes me wonder,  Is this a fortunate mistake so I am getting biopsis done and they are going to find something? Can an ultra sound find and identify masses that a CT scan can miss?  I guess I'll find out, won't I?

Thanks, Beau, for your note.

Hanging in there,

Carla

Thank you, MRDRN, for your vibes for tomorrow. Hopefully by this time tomorrow night my stomach will no longer be in knots.  Its just that being BRCA2+, some dumb little breast cells can be left behind after the mastectomy and then be vulnerable to cancer cells.  At the same time, I know this is highly unlikely, or "nearly impossible".  It is sooooo hard to wait.

Thank you MRDRN, and Beau, for your thoughts,

Carla 

Thank you, Donna and Beau, for your encouragement and kindness as I went through this latest piece of the cancer journey. I really appreciate being able to share with others who have gone through this up and down rollar coaster ride that we take.  Nobody else really understands the fear, the stress, the agony of finding out bad news or the overwhelming joy of finding out the good news. I mean....., I can't even understand it, so how can I help my husband and family understand it if I can't?  Thanks again, my friends, and have a wonderful weekend enjoying our nation's freedom.

Truly blessed,

Carla

Thank you, Spendygirl, for your congratulations and positive thoughts. Hope you are doing well and that you have a great weekend.

Jan, I am sorry, but I cannot tell you what bone mets feels like, but what I have read on these boards it is more of a bone type pain not a burning pain. A burning pain sounds more like a sciatic nerve starting from your lower back. You may have a herniated or bulging disc which is touching a nerve and causing the burning  pain down to your thigh. This is just a guess on my part. I have a bulging disc located in my lower back, and it can cause quite a bit of pain that radiates to my hips and sometimes down my legs. It can be quite painful. I take naproxin (alieve)-2 in the am, and 1 before I go to bed. In the mid afternoon I'll take an excedrin that has ibuprofen and asprin in it. I also try to walk, and do stretching exercises. But I have had this for for more than a year now. Try not to let your mind go to the "mets"  level.  See what the prednisone does first. Hope it goes well,

Very blessed,

Carla