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GeorgiaRai
GeorgiaRai Member Posts: 175
edited June 2014 in Living Without Reconstruction After a Mastectomy

At my regular MO check up yesterday, I was given a copy of the results of a CT I had in October.  In the first paragraph of the Findings, it says:  "Bilateral mastectomy has been performed with placement of right implant."  Um... what?!? I have no implants! 

Are these kind of mistakes common, and should I can just write it off as a typo (of sorts)?  Or should I call and ask to have it re-written?  The important thing was that the lung nodule we're watching is still stable, but in the back of my mind, a little voice is saying "Can you really trust a report that gave you a bonus boob?" 

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  • crystalphm
    crystalphm Member Posts: 1,138
    edited February 2014

    You need to call and check on this. I would want it corrected.

    I just saw a medical report and it said I was "refusing mammogram and was non-compliant". Well, I am not refusing anything, I have no breasts, nothing to mammogram...so I got that changed.

    I do think we really do have to watch out for mistakes and correct things. It seems to take a village to keep 1 doctor straight anymore.

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  • GeorgiaRai
    GeorgiaRai Member Posts: 175
    edited February 2014

    Thanks, crystalphm; I appreciate the advice.  :)

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  • shoppygirl
    shoppygirl Member Posts: 694
    edited February 2014

    Unfortunatly the medical profession is less than perfect. When I was having my pre-op appointment for my ooph they asked me when it was I had lukemia????? When I told her I had BC, not lukemia she said " oops, wrong chart"!  

    Thank goodness they got it together and removed the correct thing during surgery! At least I think they did!  Lol! 

    I also have a pesky lung nodule that they are 'watching'. What a pain!  

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  • GeorgiaRai
    GeorgiaRai Member Posts: 175
    edited February 2014

    LOL, shoppy! Surely if they removed the wrong thing, you would've missed it by now!?

    Yes, the nodule watching is lame...but I guess it beats the alternative. 

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  • DeliriumPie
    DeliriumPie Member Posts: 1,370
    edited February 2014

    the amount of mistakes I've seen are scary. Don't we hope the folks who create our reports are detail oriented?  On my recent CT, they were supposed to so chest, abdomen and pelvis. I knew something was wrong because it was way too short. I really thought they only did my abdomen. When I got the report. It was labeled CT of abdomen. But it was for my chest and buried in the report mentioned nothing remarkable in my abdomen. And guess what, they forgot to scan my pelvis at all. I've also had full ultrasounds of my limbs at an ER visit to check for dvt. My legs were labeled as my arms and vice verse on the reports. Really?  Years ago my husband was hospitalized due to a heart attack and the bill he received had a $13k charge on it for oncology. Hmm. Makes me question the tiny measurements they have to make to monitor our pesky nodules. According to my "abdominal" CT mine have grown enough to warrant a biopsy. I hope they stick me in the right place! 

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  • shoppygirl
    shoppygirl Member Posts: 694
    edited February 2014

    delirium 

    Hope everything goes ok with the biopsy. Was this your first follow up scan after chemo on the nodules ?  

    Hugs to you. 

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  • GeorgiaRai
    GeorgiaRai Member Posts: 175
    edited February 2014

    I ditto shoppy's comments!  Sheila, here's hoping your biopsy goes smoothly and that you get a good report. 

    What scan shedule are you ladies on?  I'm down to every 6 months but I guess they will continue indefinitely. 

    ~Rachel

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  • Lettinggo
    Lettinggo Member Posts: 52
    edited February 2014

    thank u all for the posts ladies. Can someone tell me what the chest nodules are? Do they come up after masectomy? Hope your report is a good one! Thank you

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  • shoppygirl
    shoppygirl Member Posts: 694
    edited February 2014

    Georgia 

    I had a scan done six months after it was found and my next one is is September which will be a year. They found it in my first ever ct scan so they figured it had been there all along. When they scanned me last September after chemo it was exactly the same so they figured it was a granuloma. 

    Letting go

    Lung nodules are usually incidental findings in a ct scan. Sometimes they can be mets but usually if there is only one or two and they don't grow it is the result of an old infection or scar. Many women in here have benign ones. 

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  • GeorgiaRai
    GeorgiaRai Member Posts: 175
    edited February 2014

    Lettinggo, I think my oncologist uses the term "nodule" to mean there's something questionable showing on up my lung, but she doesn't know what it is and it's too small to biopsy.  Mine turned up in my first (and only) PET scan back before I had surgery, chemo or rads.  It hasn't grown, which is a strong indicator that it's just a small scar or mark left from an old infection or something.  Lots of people have harmless lung nodules and never know about them, but because we get scans in our BC diagnosis & treatment, our docs see everything, and once they see it, they have to do something - even if all they can do it watch it over time.

    Shoppy, I had CTs 3 months apart, and now am up to 6 months.  I'll have my 5th one in July - and am hoping to go to yearly after that.   

    Sheila, I was just reading again all the errors you've encountered in lab work.  That's just so crazy!

    ~Rachel

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