I can't believe I'm handling this so poorly!

sillystraw- my advice is to be kind to yourself. This is hard. If possible do something with someone while you are waiting - walking, bike riding, hiking, going to a movie. Hope you get b9 results on Monday.

Silly when was your biopsy done? Mine was done on Wednesday morning and radiologist said "he'd try and rush it and maybe call me Friday afternoon". Originally he told me 2-4 working days. Well no call Friday. I attempted to call the radiologist but got scheduling who tried to transfer me but I got a busy signal, that was at 3:30pm or so. Called my mom in Europe to get some sympathy about this wait by the time I'd finished talking to her if was after office hours. My radiologist mammography place says it's hours of 8-4pm on Fridays. I will be calling Monday for my result. The radiologist said the Breast surgeon usually calls with the results but he's quicker at checking the computer than them, so if I wanted he would call me, he wrote my number on a post it and put it on top of my paperwork. I have Breast implants so the 'nodule' they've found is near the implant so they couldn't do a core biopsy as they were worried about needle going in too far and rupturing implant so I had to have a fine needle biopsy going in twice, he put the stuff on the slides, looked at it under the microscope and said he had some cellular stuff and enough of it for pathology to work with. I'm VERY anxious and just been in this strange state of limbo. My radiologist had appendicitis the morning I was supposed to get the core biopsy so he booked himself in for a CT scan and all appointments were cancelled. My Breast surgeon said she thought she could do it, so I came to see her the next morning, along with some bloke from the ultrasound company so they could try this new needle that doesn't go in as far, but she stopped after about ten mins of trying and said she was too nervous about hitting implant as the mass was v close. So it's been 2 weeks of waiting to see what's going on. I am 32, a mom of a 5 yr old and separated from my husband, my family live in Europe and I'm in NY. Let's pray for benign results Monday. My surgeon did say that sometimes they are already talking about taking lumps out even before biopsies are done so there's hope for us yet. Let's think good thoughts.

Thyroid cancer is "one of the best cancers to have" has one of highest cure rates, I was told this before I went for a thyroid ultrasound because PCP felt my thyroid was enlarged. I was panicking but didn't sweat the results when I heard that from two different doctors. Now I'm terrified, I'm just exhausted from worrying night and day and praying that now I'm feeling subdued. I go from feeling confident to feeling very scared. I also feel guilty I'm only now contemplating what people with cancer go through, I am a student nurse and I realize that helping people is a real priviledge, yet we get all the thanks from the patients when it's really them doing ALL the heavy lifting.

Awesome news! Celebrate

yay happy to hear this Silly

I think family history accounts for around ten percent of Breast cancers maybe slightly more. I hope your treatment is straight forward. I can't believe within six weeks of a mammogram you've already had a masectomy, although that's a great thing. I'm in my thirties just had an MRl and ultrasound, has to be ultrasound for us because of denser breasts when younger, now I have baseline scans and am being monitored regularly I feel less anxious and I hope this is the case for your daughters. I hope you get your treatment plan very soon

tjh if you haven't already post your question about the drains here:

https://community.breastcancer.org/forum/91

That's a section for people who have had surgery people in the know will be there