Second lump found

You are definately not on borrowed time.  Your lumps are small and easily treatable.  My lumps were 4.4cm and 3 cm!  The wait between, tests/results/treatment does seem like a long time but the majority of breast cancers are slow growing.  I found my lump at the begining of August and I had my mastectomy and lymph node removal on 3 December.  I now have to wait until 6 January to find out if they think they have got it all.  I have put it out of my mind and concentrated on recovering from my operation and looking forward to Christmas.  I know it is hard but try not to worry too much.  There are many people on this forum who are 10 years + post cancer.

Thanks for your reply. It just seems to get worse every time I speak with the nurse or have a new test. I have been doing quite well up until today, when I had to phone for the results of the MRI. Now I have to wait for them to phone me with new appointment date for new biopsy.  But you are right xmas is just a few days away and for the sake of my daughter I need to put it out of my mind and stay positive x

Did you have lump under your arm as well?

One lymph node was swollen and when they took a biopsy found it was malignant which is why they took them all out.  The type of cancer I have does not  respond to chemo so if any further treatment is required it will be radiotherapy,  Hopefully, they got it all.  In which case I will be classed as cancer free,

You are so brave. Thanks for sharing x

No, I'm not particularly brave, just coping with what life throws at me!  Listen to Fight Song by Rachel Platten, I have the chorus as my ring tone.

Hi Cyprusfav

So sorry that you find yourself here. None of us wanted to be joining this forum but it is a great place for support and encouragement and ‘on the ground’ advice from so many who have had to go through this. 
Waiting for results and a treatment plan is truly the worst part of the whole process. Just over 3 months when newly diagnosed I  questioned this and couldn’t see how I would ever feel any better mentally and emotionally. But I do - and in time you certainly will too. 
And I totally identify with the fact that at each point the whole thing seems to get worse - bad news piled on bad news. At one point I felt that I was becoming one of those really outrageous stories found in the ‘sensational’ magazines etc where everything just gets worse & worse! But suddenly some good news arrives and slowly and surely the other parts of your life start to dominate, rather than the cancer diagnosis. 
In the meantime, do whatever you need to do to get through the waiting. Enjoy the Christmas break. Good luck

Hi cyprusfav, before you had your mri was you advised of a size or if it was small, that's what has been said to, was there much difference in size pls x

The Lumps were actually smaller than the MRI predicted. The second lump was thought to be 8 mm, but was actually only3mm when removed. Hope that answers your question. 

Thank you was there any spread to your nodes, advised yesterday stage 1 grade 2. Scan on nodes was fine 

Thank you xx

Ho, your read your profile, can I ask how they diagnosed your suspicious lymph node, yesterday advised I am stage 1 grade 2, struggling to do the waiting game I really am 

Thank you xx