yet another thread about mammos

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Jorf
Jorf Member Posts: 498
edited June 2014 in Life After Breast Cancer

I know that these threads are started every other day. Sorry, you don't really have to read it. I just need to write it.

Tomorrow is my mammogram. The one I had last year was shortly after chemo so I was pretty comfortable with it. But now it's a year later (tho I had an MRI 6 months ago). Not only that but next Friday my husband leaves for Brazil and I follow 2 weeks later - for the trip we didn't get to take last year since I was diagnosed just 2 weeks before he was due to leave. And, my initial lump showed up in November '05.

So, it's just a confluence of you-know-what.  

I'm sure it will be fine. Just a little anxiety - do you think that's why I ate more than is really humanly possible at T-giving dinner tonight and is the reason I'm up on line at 1 while my dh is snoring away upstairs? 

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  • celia088
    celia088 Member Posts: 2,570
    edited November 2007

    jorf,

    "just a confluence of you-know-what"  --  and what you have cited in your post is all just circumstantial evidence!!!

    Since you had an MRI 6 months ago, i think you will be fine.  Your mind is having the heebie jeebies, partly influenced by your substantial T-giving dinner.

    Get some rest tonight and have a great time with hubby in Brazil !!!! 

    hugs,

    celia 

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  • 2up
    2up Member Posts: 1,358
    edited November 2007

    i had a mammo today, which inevitably lead to an ultrasound ........... it freaked me out on every level!

    i thought i had it 'all together',  "scar tissue or an encapsulated suture" ....... now i'm scheduled for a biopsy of unaffected mastectomy breast, and i'm just quite fed up with cancer lol!

    i have decided to opt out of any further diagnostics until the new year, my kid deserves a decent christmas for a change, and frankly so do i lol!  have a fabulous trip jorf ...... i'm doing my every 6 week trek to the 'keys' soon and i just can't wait to get there this time!

    brazil is fabulous (as you already know) ........... enjoy!!!!!!!!! 

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  • roseg
    roseg Member Posts: 3,133
    edited November 2007

    It's hard not to worry.

    At the place I go if you've had cancer they'll schedule you at a time with the Radiologist is around and the tech will run your films over for a quick look-see.

    It's not the final determination but both times I've left I've had a verbal "all clear." It seems like it takes forever for that letter to get mailed. 

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  • Jorf
    Jorf Member Posts: 498
    edited November 2007

    Thank you. I really should have put this off until January but I've been in that not believing that there is a future thing all year and so never quite believed that I was going to actually go to Brazil until a few weeks ago (lots of DH problems this year).

    Yeah, Rose, that's how they did it last year. I am NOT leaving the building without a result. And this year I'm bringing my own reading material so I don't have to sit in this bizarre little cubby-hole room all by myself in a hospital gown reading a torn copy of a magazine about boats (talk about hell - only having one source of reading material and it's mostly advertisements about something you have no interest in!). 

    Thanks again. 

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  • Fitztwins
    Fitztwins Member Posts: 7,969
    edited November 2007

    I hear you on the mammo stress. Mine is next Friday, then MRI on the 13th. I get the biggest pit in my stomach. I forgot to ask my doc for some xanax!

    Sometimes I repeat a prayer to myself while there waiting and it helps. I used to say a prayer during my radiation treatments. Hail Mary ( I am catholic) and the Our Father.

    Janis

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  • Jorf
    Jorf Member Posts: 498
    edited November 2007

    Smile

    Brazil, here I come! 

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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited November 2007

    Yipppeeeeee!!!

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