Wishing you an uneventful and restful weekend, Spoonie!

Hi Spoonie - glad to here you found a doctor who you can really like. Have a really good weekend and is your cat ever gorgeous. Glad you checked in - take good care of you - sending you energy cause I think you could use it.

Alice--if it helps your mindset, at least for the collagen I'm taking, I started thinking I'm really only replacing something that I used to have in my body but that is waning because of my age. I've been pretty anti-pills my whole life, but thinking of some of them that way has helped me accept them. It was actually one of my kids who started increasing collagen through diet, and I must say his skin looks pretty good! FWIW--I know I have arthritis in both of my knees and both of my hips, but they really don't bother me. I don't know how this turned into a post about collagen but here's some info:

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/collagen-benefits#section2

Spoonie - so glad cervical cancer concern came back benign and hi to Ari! So sorry to hear you are still in the drudge of test after test after test - hope it will at least get you answers. We are all thinking of and praying for you!

April1964 - the little fluff fluff is a Pomeranian! He’s just a puppy but will probably grow up looking like Domino (also a Pom). Tucker (our bigger dog) is part border collie (we don’t know the other half as he’s a rescue).

GreenHarbor - will keep you posted on how the pups get along! We “officially” bring Finley home this Sunday at 8 weeks. Pics I’ve been posting are from visits.

On the hormone therapy side, I’ve discovered it’s very, very, very difficult to lose weight on tamoxifen. So I’m just going to post another pic of Finley and call it a night.

Thyroid biopsy came back --> it's cancer.

Worst of all, I found out from that dang nurse at my old MO's office! SHE TOLD ME, not a doctor!!!! Then she told me to call my Endocrinologist office and speak to my dr about the results. FFS. I want her fired. She has NOOOOO business being a nurse, IMO.

Anyway, waiting to hear from my Endo to figure out what's next. Not sure if I have to have a PET scan to stage it or what.

Here we go again, the Spoonie Journey continues.

Oh man Spoonie, you just can't catch a break. I'm so sorry to hear this. It sucks. Seriously, wtf?

Oh, Spoonie..... this news SUCKS. I’m so sorry. Just say the word, and I’ll get myself to where you are and give that nurse a piece of my mind. Then I could come to your place and make you soup. Sending love....

Thanks everyone. I'm at a loss really. I don't know what to think....how many more shoes can drop on me this year? I mean really, what is next?! Le Sigh. I've already been given Breast Cancer, then MS, and now Thyroid Cancer. Ugggh.

Thankfully my Endocrinologist did call about an hour later and inform me that it's indeed Papillary Thyroid Cancer. That's the good news. It's the most common kind and all I "should" need is the removal of my thyroid. I see the surgeon for a pre-op appt on Nov 21 and then surgery will follow sometime after. Part of me is still worried that the pathology of the thyroid will reveal BC METS mixed in and then that will be a whole new ballgame. IDk. It's just SOOOO much.

Really struggling and trying my best to stay positive in the face of new cancer. In the meantime, my anger etc is being focused on that dang nurse with a laser focus. Filing a formal grievance with the clinic in regards to her. There seems to be no reason that she should have given me the news, it was not ordered by her doctor and I have not been a patient of that dr for the past 2 months. I'm irrate at that, don't even get me started on how my Mom is feeling. LOL.

Anyway, will post more when I know more. For now, I just thank you all for your kindness and empathy.

Awe Spoonie - that really sucks - you are getting hit from all sides. I am so sorry. Hopefully it will be a simple snip and done. The nurse should be beaten black and blue with dirty bed pans. Sending you hugs and more hugs.

Thank you all for the continuing love, compassion, and support. Means so very much to me, especially in these stressful times.

@TheCarGirl -> Unfortunately, yes she is a RN at my former MO's office. Everyone I mention this nurse's behavior to is equally as concerned. I DO NOT want any other patient to experience what I have at her hands over the past 6 months. It's just not acceptable, not at any clinic, let alone at an Oncology cliinic! I'm in the process of filing a formal in paper, on the record complaint since apparently my last complaint to the Clinic Manager was not enough. Sigh.

Spoonie we are all here for you, and yes file that complaint against the RN! Trying to find a silver lining, I looked up thyroid cancer and it says 98% survival rate, so this is very beatable and you will be OK

And if and when you have another appointment at the doctor’s, here’s Finley to say you’re not alone.

(You know me, if the photos help provide a smile or some comfort, then I will post them for you).

Spoonie- I am so sorry. This truly sucks and I hate it for you. I am sending gentle hugs to you and will line up with edj3 for the bedpan swinging.

Thanks Dani and LPL. It's been an emotional weekend. Kind of lost it when I found out that it's NOT standard to run a stain on the biopsy slides for ER PR receptors in a previous BC patient when looking at thyroid slides. I'm like WHY THE FUCK NOT??? Pardon my French, but seriously, if this CAN be done, why is is NOT? My Endocrinologist just told me that it happens in less than 1% of BC survivors and lab techs know the difference between Thyroid cancer cells and Breast Cancer cells. Sure and do humans make mistakes??? Last time I checked, yes they freakin do. IDK. I'm just all kinds of worked up but trying to stay focused and reminding myself that the odds say THIS will be ONLY Thyroid Cancer. My Endo did explain that it wouldn't change my treatment plan for Thyroid Cancer. That's when I lost it because IMO welp, if they ARE ER/PR receptors, that's METs, and IMO that SURE THE F DOES change my treatment plan!

Le Sigh.

Seriously, I was researching the odds of having another cancer (after any other cancer treatment, not just BC and it turns out 1 in 6 (!!!!) cancer survivors will be dxd with another cancer sometime in their life. Granted, it seems most are encountered in their 70s or 80s, but still, would've been nice to learn from my team PRIOR to this that generally speaking cancer survivors have about a 14% increased risk (maybe as great as 2-17% within 20 years of follow-up) than the population of having another cancer (of any kind).

Did anyone else's team happen to mention this to them at all?

Has anyone here been dxd with a 2nd cancer? If so, did they then do a PET Scan or anything to determine if there were other cancers anywhere? It seems logical to me to do that but according to my Endocriniolgist that is not protocol. Just feel a "bit" overwhelmed and want to catch anything that might be lingering or spreading or just THERE in my body somewhere. It's just an awful feeling.

Spoonie, my first cancer dx was melanoma in August, 2017. Breast cancer is my second one. After that happened, I did find a study that said a melanoma dx increases risks for other cancers (here's an abstract of another one).

The strongest link in my situation is certain genetic anomalies, which I don't have. As my husband said, I'm an overachiever to have two cancers with no genetic issues. You can read more here.

No PET scan, nothing other than the breast MRI I requested since I have dense breasts.

And then I requested a chest x-ray to make sure the small pleural effusion that showed up on the MRI wasn't anything serious or a sign of melanoma making itself comfy (it wasn't, and apparently I grow little ones often--my RO reviewed all MRIs/x-rays/CT scans clear back to 2005 and I had a little one then, too).

While the BC is not something I love, I'm more concerned with the melanoma doing sneaky things. That one is a right bastard of a cancer.