Anyone else waiting for results this weekend?

I'm so sorry to hear about the loss of your mother in law, your doggie daughter's poor health and your suspicious mass. When it rains it pours. From experience, the waiting is the worst part. I'm sure other ladies will chime in to agree with that. When do you get the results? I suggest you do something nice for yourself this weekend. Go out for a fancy dinner, catch up with girlfriends over a few glasses of wine, take a nice drive to see the wild flowers in bloom, anything to keep you distracted. Good luck and I'll be thinking of you.

Hi,

I'm waiting for test results. This is my third time having a biopsy, but this is a little more scary. Biopsy schedules were rearranged to move mine up and axillary biopsies were also done because the extra mammograms showed enlarged lymph nodes. The biopsies were done on Tuesday, 4 days ago, and I am still having trouble lifting my arm and my breast is about double it's normal size and extremely painful. I was told that I wouldn't get test results for 7-10 days and maybe longer because of the Easter holiday.

Is it normal to still have so much pain and swelling?

just realized you're both Gina's! Haha! That second post was directed at Gina4h.

Gina - both of you - do try the icing as well as wearing a sports bra 24/7. I found that helped a lot after all of my biopsies.

I know that with Easter and Passover this weekend there may not be as many friends available to hang out with and provide distraction during the wait. It can be really tough at times like this. Try, if you can, to embrace the fact that you don't yet know if you have a malignancy and savor that.

Gina 72, I'm so sorry about both your dog's illness (I do get that) and your MIL. My thoughts are with you - and I wish I could do more.

Hang in there, both of you.

Sunflower, I hope you're healing well and taking it easy.

Hi, I had called the breast assessment centre but they just said an infection was unlikely and swelling was normal. Finally went into urgent care anyway and I have an acute infection. Intra muscular antibiotics today and tomorrow plus oral antibiotics and if the swelling has not gone down by tomorrow afternoon, I may need to be admitted to hospital. Typing with my left hand cause my right arm and hand are too swollen:(

Seeing my 3 year old granddaughter for a bit and listening to her say "I love you grandma" brightened my day!

yay Anne

There has to be some middle ground between expensive American health care and free but inaccessible Canadian health care.

I am at urgent care again waiting another 2-4 hours because the majority of Canadian doctors do not work after 5 or on weekends - ever! There is a clinic on the other side of the hallway with 40 physicians, but all of their patients that need to see a doctor are waiting to see the ONE doctor in urgent care. The family practice that I go to has 10 doctors but they don't do call either. Many Canadians cannot even find a family doctor, so of course they come here too. In a city of 500,000 there are about 10 doctors working this weekend other than the skeletal staff in hospitals. The doctor I finally saw yesterday was so rough that my breast would have been bruised even if it wasn't infected. This system needs to be fixed. It's hard enough waiting for results without this additional pain and frustration.

I had a mammogram and an ultrasound because of abnormal lump and lympnodes also a biopsy redults came back benign reactive however an MRI is requested and the lumps must be removed in two months the waiting is making me so stressed because no one will take the time to listen to me. I had nipple discharge they not concerned but I am due to family history I am besides myself as J do not know why the MRI is requested.

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Oh, Gina, I'm so sorry. I know you must be pretty shell shocked right now. I'm praying that there isn't actual metastasis.

I am waiting on the oncotype test score.

Gina, I just re-read your post and want to apologize - I was reading it that maybe they were thinking the broken leg was due to bone metastasis. Instead, I'll bet they're thinking the clot was due to the fact that cancer tends to increase risk of blood clots? If so, that's a very different story. I'm SO sorry if my response panicked you.

I know how frightening it is to have it already in your nodes; I've been in your shoes and that was what REALLY pulled the rug out from under my feet, as I didn't even have a palpable lump but there it was - in my nodes. It's definitely a blow. However, it's not the end of the world.

Once you know your pathology things will become more clear. In the meantime, I'm sorry to have added to your burden.

Gina4h I am sorry you got this rotten diagnosis. You've certainly had it rough with the passing of your husband and now this. Please keep us posted. You're in my thoughts!

Hugs

Nancy