Phone call to say we need you back - phew - legs go wobbly.

Sorry to hear this.  You are a strong lady and have done it once, whatever the outcome, you can do it again.  Success stories like yours from your first BC gives me hope to keep going with my journey.

Please take care and let us know how you get on xx

Sorry to hear about your worrying time. You did the right thing going to get your concerns checked out. Your Care Team are now doing right by you and thoroughly investigating. They have not given you a diagnosis yet and I do hope for you that it turns out to be a false alarm. Waiting for the tests and then the results is the worst. Whatever it turns out to be, you can do this. You have wrapped it once before and can do it again. Hang in there and us this site to the max.

Sending big virtual hugs

WallyDug

Hi Primose13

Welcome to the forum and sorry to hear that you are facing breast cancer for the second time.  Treatment for breast cancer has come a long way from where it was in 2007 and more ladies are now surviving breast cancer than ever before.

Best of luck with your tests and hopefully things will be ok for you.

Best wishes

Daisy53

Thank you and I will let you know how I get on.  When I had my first diagnosis so many things were said to me that were just not right and gave me NO confidence whatsoever.  This was the day before my op and I got myself out of that hospital and into another - which turned out to be the best move.  

This hospital is much easier to travel to than my previous BC hospital - so all new and now have I got faith in them?

Thank you all for the welcome - I am having to get used to how I use this site.  I guess treatments have come a long way.  I was very fortunate to get Herceptin as it had only just been granted, if I am correct, on the NHS for anyone first diagnosed.  I think it was previously only used if BC had returned. 

Thank you - yes - I felt that I had to get checked out.  BUT what a shock lay there thinking what are they finding in my left breast again.  Then told we are looking at your right one! 

My thoughts will not go away!!  Stupid I know it will not change the results that I get.  Do any of you know of a relaxation 'talk' that I could download onto my Walkman?  I did have some when I had BC in 2007.  Strange as it seems I don't want to play those as it takes me back to that time.  (Saying Walkman gives a clue to my 76 years of age!)

Thank you x

MickeyM  asked me if I was having a stereotactic biopsies under mammogram?  Not sure if that what the above means and it will take place on 20th December.  Thank you all for your support. xx

Hi, sorry if I confused you, I just saw your post said ‘ upright stereo mammo + vac assist’ which is what mine said a few months back. It was just biopsies taken under mammogram the vac assist, as I understood it helped them easier get a better sample of my calcifications /tissue for testing.  They could then grade, what in my case was two separate areas of dcis, having already done so with the lump. I hope that makes sense. 
Ps: you didn’t need to worry about taking any attention away from me, it wasn’t my thread. Just trying to re-assure others and using ny experience where I hope it might help. 
Take care of you and virtual hugs again Mickey xx ️

Thank you Mickey.  I remember when I was diagnosed first in 2007 and I was told you are now going on a 'Cancer Journey'.  Funny - I did not like that phrase then and I still don't!   Not sure what is better but I only went to a 'One Stop Shop Breast Clinic'  (it was called that then to get a decision on that same day) anyway I didn't expect that to be said to me. 

My GP had thought it was nothing but it was just to make sure and I was going to work again next day.  Basically I had retired and at 62 - for me working at a local National Trust was meant I was in a beautiful surrounding and that was my 'journey' going there each day. 

Anyway one battle seems to be to get 'out of our head' and at the moment I am finding it hard as I can't believe there I was asking for my left breast to be looked at and the focus is on my right!

Take care of you Mickey xxx