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  • On another note does anyone know if my friendly Gp would have my pathology report. If so would it just be there on the computer ? I never saw it as at the time and during chemo I was so distraught hubby didn't want me to ask. My chemo Onc was very blunt and i knew it wouldn't be great so I didn't go there  But I have so many fears and questions hubby still against it so I wondered if I could see it with my Gp  i know it's not like my onc  and maybe they couldn't interpret it but may help me  or would it just terrify me more. I know it was aggressive Grade three maybe i shouldn't ask ?  Any advice xx

  • How about some good news?

    2 year mammogram all clear!!! Just in time for my holiday. Grin

    See you all in 3 weeks

    Xxxx

    Karen 

  • Great news ! Xxxx

    Onwards and flatwards (don't do hills) and keep walking if you can!

  • Fantastic! 

    Great news, now go and enjoy yourself

    “let hope be your lighthouse beckoning you though stormy seas" - Jessica de la Davies

  • Love the stories ! Xxx

    Onwards and flatwards (don't do hills) and keep walking if you can!

  • Ah , you work so hard, you needed that sleep ! Big hugs xxx

    Onwards and flatwards (don't do hills) and keep walking if you can!

  • Have you a good relationship with your GP, ? If so you could ask his/her advice about looking at the report. Does the GP realise you probably have PTSD? If your GP is likely to be unsympathetic I think it might make you worse. You don't need someone else being blunt and dismissive. I didn't look at the path reports for my BC, just knew grade and stage, and definitely did not want a prognosis. With the bowel C I knew all, but it was a good prognosis from the start, quite different from the BC. Tbh, I'm a bit dubious whether you should go there at all.

    Big hugs xxxxx

    Onwards and flatwards (don't do hills) and keep walking if you can!

  • Karen, ........

    REALLY happy to hear your news! Now go have a FANTASTIC holiday! Look forward to hearing all about it on your return! Xxxxxxxx

    , in all honesty I think in your current state reading the pathology report will NOT help you! I would really think about it if I were you! What do you think you will gain from reading it? You have been treated and you are currently NED that's GREAT NEWS Hun! Try and concentrate on that!

    If you really have questions to ask talk to your BCN or Oncologist as they are the ones with all the information. But do you really need to know what your prognosis on paper is? No one knows what the future holds. They could say there's a 75% chance of it returning in 10years? Well you could be in the 25% that stay Cancer free! If not, when in that 10years will it return? No one knows! So do you wake every day thinking is today the day? No, you just get on with your life and go to your check ups, have mammo's every year.....oh do exactly what you are doing now!

    Hun, nothing will change with this information. It won't take away the fear or worry only you can do that by learning to live with what's happened. 

    Obviously this is just my opinion and its your decision. I hope you don't mind me giving my rather blunt view on it! ((((((((((BIG HUGS)))))))) xxxx

  • Hi,.I agree totally with ,and ...

    decide whether or not to see it...then if you decide ,stick with your decision and go do some very comforting things...Hot Xhocolate with cream,hobbys out,pamper day....etc etc.....If you do go to your GP please warn him/her about your PTSD.and maybe ask them to pass on the info to your cancer nurse so that she can maybe go theough it with you instead.Just a thought.

    also,wonderful that you had a good sleep ysmum(tagger playing up)...natures best rememdy,I think,but am a bit old fashioned (thank goodness)You have such an enormous lot on.Would your line Manager try  a bit harder to find extra help to cover sickness,in view of things?oh,hang on,maybe you are your line Manager....its’ been so long....and also...yes I do know so well how hard it is in the NHS to cover..when I was a Nursing Assistant you just had to buckle down and do twice the work...when you were working at full capacity yourself already.

    Anyway....the further flights of fancy of my little friend ,Scoogi.

    Scoogi was so very very frightened.She had been rustled from her bathing by a stranger with a funny nose,and wrapped in a towel,and Guinea-napped into the dark dark streets.Oh!oh!oh!Quelle Domage!!!Au Secours!!Au Secours!!!

    When the dastardly act had been found out ,Two Massive posters were to clearly be seen up and around town....(scaring the horses and children)....

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember in reply to Violetsniff

    ! please don't ask for the pathology report, I asked what was the likelihood I would get a recurrence and was told 80%.  It's quite a big pill to swallow, and it really got stuck.  I think the reason I asked, was probably that in the midst of all the crap, I was really hoping for a shred of good news.  It's taken a fair amount of counselling, and to be honest I don't think anyone can tell us for certain.  What keeps me happy is my family, my work and my friends (and  Scoogi...wherever he is!)  So don't let the cancer take over your life, it's just not worth it.  Sending you lots of hugs and holding your hand too xxx