Hi everyone, I hope you don’t think I’m being a baby.
A month ago I went to the Breast clinic for what I thought was an 18 month follow up appointment for some cysts.
Long story short, a tender area was found, looked a bit like a cyst but was a mass. Had four needle biopsy. Had a result appointment 10 very anxious days later. I was very sore and took a couple of days off work.
I work in the community for a Hospice with Palliative patients, many ladies have terminal breast cancer, my anxieties were making it very difficult to work. Driving made my breast very achey.
At my results appointment with the consultant, she gave me a diagnosis from a different patient, she looked in my notes and said forget everything I’ve said, you have a radial scar, and the biopsy is clear, however, it has to be removed as it can be masking abnormal cells.
I had the vacuum excision biopsy on Thursday, I managed to get a sick certificate for a week, it very reluctantly given. I am very sore, it stings, my dressing is full of dried blood ( dreading taking it off on Tuesday) My results appointment isn’t until July 17 th. With the pain-in my breast and being very anxious at the moment,( not much use to my patients) am I being a baby to ask the GP for an extension to my sick leave?
Thankyou
I am so sorry you feel like this , I totally agree with the other ladies, your emotions and anxiety levels will be through the roof with all this, let alone with your work situation, this will amplify the whole situation into overload.
Try.... 'try' and push any thoughts out of your head, there could me a hundred and one reasons - you will never guess the correct answer and if you did guess the answer you wouldn't know this until you go to your appointment.
If you can look at the Mindfulness apps you can get on the mobiles, they do help, especially when trying to get off to sleep.
You looking at your ultrasound images was the same as me 'after' I'd had my treatment, I looked and could see this 'thing/shape/something' that looked different to the rest of my breast..... I was given my results that all was good.... so my head was telling me, they had missed it, I had seen what they hadn't!!!! We don't know what to look for, there will be 'things' on the scans that look wrong to us, but, you have to remember, this is there job, they have trained and studied for this - to be able to read the scan results...
not like us, just having a quick look and coming up with our own version of what things are!!! So 'stop it, you will drive yourself crazy'.
I hope this doesn't sound wrong, but, 'it is what it is - no amount of worrying, adding 2 and 2 and coming up with 6, none of this will help you, it will just drain you. Try to push any thoughts out of your mind, distract yourself, do something different.
The waiting is the hardest part and whatever happens you now have a punch of Fruit Loops all ready to help in whatever ways we can.
Sending you big hugs xxxx
