Spinal MRI Thursday, very nervous

I have to have an MRI on my thorasic spine this Thursday due to an abnormal uptake on a bone scan I had a couple of weeks ago. I am quite nervous about what will be found on the MRI. Waiting on the results will be the hardest. The only reason I ended up having a bone scan in the first place, was because my MO saw how stressed I was with my diagnosis and how I felt that there was something being missed. I had had a lot of rib pain and right side mid back pain for a few months before I found my breast lump and kept thinking that something was very wrong. My MO said that if he did extensive bloodwork, a chest x-ray, and a bone scan and they all came back normal, would that make me feel better and I told him yes it would. Well, my bloodwork came back great and no problems with my chest x-ray, but I received the dreaded call on the bone scan the day after I had the test. It was the MO's nurse and she said that there was an abnormal update between the T8&T9 spine and my MO had ordered an MRI. Apparently, there was also an abnormal uptake on a left rib, but it stated that it was due to trauma as I had cracked a few ribs 6 months before. The pain from the cracked ribs is not the same one I was referring to previously. I have been diagnosed with ostepenia because I was thrown into early Menapause at 46 due to early stage Endometrial Cancer. Since the call over a week ago, I have been teetering on doing ok and feeling panicky. I have reached out to a few women I know who have had breast cancer and they did a good job talking me off the ledge, but here I find myself on Sunday feeling so scared once again about the what ifs. I did want to add that one of the women I spoke with is a very dear friend of my younger sister and she was diagnosed 18 years ago with Stage 3 BC and 15 years ago it spread to her bones. She is doing great today and currently is in complete remisssion! She was part of a documentary in 2009 called "Dead Girl Walking". It is a very inspiring story and worth the time to view it. It gives great hope no matter what the outcome. Thanks for listening.

http://www.deadgirlwalking.net/


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