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  • Cindyl
    Cindyl Member Posts: 498

    Mostly Sew, I hope it's something like that. I wish my RO had been available when this popped up, but he wasn't in so they sent me to the PCP, who wasn't available, so I've been dealing with the PA, a sweet little thing, but... anyway yeah.

  • denise-g
    denise-g Member Posts: 353

    I finished Rads on Friday, going to MO on Tuesday.  I have 2 lumps as well in my MX breast.  Hoping they are scar tissue.  I had some smaller ones earlier and they were.   My last ones were near the end of the scar.  They went away.  

  • gmafoley
    gmafoley Member Posts: 5,978

    Update:

    Got an Appt with the surgeon at 3:30 tomorrow..

  • ptdreamers
    ptdreamers Member Posts: 639

    good luck gma.

  • gmafoley
    gmafoley Member Posts: 5,978

    Pocket pals????

  • omaz
    omaz Member Posts: 4,218
    Pocket pal here Gma!  Good luck, hope it's nothing.
  • Cindyl
    Cindyl Member Posts: 498

    Saw the PCP.  She is very confident that it's a sebaceous cyst with a lousy sense of timing.  It's still full of infection (after a week of antibiotics) so she wants to continue the pills for 2 more weeks.  Then she'll check it again and we'll decide if we need to drain it.  So we wait some more. 

     It's not that I don't trust her, but these are the same people who thought my lump was scar tissue so, yeah.

    I think I'll give the rads nurse a call and see what she has to say.

  • chabba
    chabba Member Posts: 3,600

    In your pocket gma!

  • gmafoley
    gmafoley Member Posts: 5,978

    I agree Cindy - Go to the one you trust the most..

    I have to do an "eeny meeny miny moe" with mine. The only thing I do know is my RO is a NO NO NO... LOL

    My PCP is a "cover your butt" kinda guy and sends me in for every test imaginable,

    My MO doesn't do anything except labwork and tell me how I really need to start the anti estrogen meds,

    And my surgeon at least looks at things before saying, "It will be ok.. we will keep an eye on it".. which is probably what he will say today... I almost think we know more than most of them..

    So, which one would you choose in my case? I bet many of you have the same issue.. 

  • Cindyl
    Cindyl Member Posts: 498

    My PCP will do what I tell her to do, if only I knew what that was...

    The RO will say it had nothing to do with rads, but it does look painful.

    The surgeon would be sweet and concerned and maybe even helpful, but she's booked up and it takes an act of congress to get on her schedule...

    I'd really like to go see the radiologist that diagnosed my cancer, but he doesn't "see" patients unless you have a suspicious mammogram/us.

    So yeah, I see the PCP, but probably won't sleep well until we get in for the mammogram.

  • FireKracker
    FireKracker Member Posts: 5,858

    I just fired my onco.

    I just quit the PT.goin for #3.It seems no one knows enuf about LE except on these threads.Binney and Kara know it all.Thank God for them.

    love my internist and BS.

    goin for a colonoscopy that is long overdue thurs....love him too.using him over 15 yrs.

    my motto is I PAY YOUR SALARY, DO WHAT I NEED AND WANT OR YOUR FIRED!!!!!!

    Does anyone want to go with me on thurs for the colonoscopy?I think im gonna need help.my stomach is a mess and i have been putting this thing off for quite some time....I need a pocket party!!!!!!

    huggggggggggggs everyone K

  • Sherryc
    Sherryc Member Posts: 4,503

    Granny I'll go with you and you can go to mine in August.  Don't have a date yet but will let you know. I know your stomach has been a mess, I sure hope they can figure out what is going on.

  • FireKracker
    FireKracker Member Posts: 5,858

    Thanks Sherry....And yes I will go with you....been dyin to go to texas to see my family in Dallas and all my other sistas...just give me the date....I have an electric broom....it never failed me.lol.

  • omaz
    omaz Member Posts: 4,218
    Granny - I'm with you!!  
  • chabba
    chabba Member Posts: 3,600

    Me too Granny

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545

    Me too Granny.

    Going to the PS on Thurs afternoon when I get out of granny's pocket.  Hopefully this is my last appt.  BTW - the app is at 3:45. 

  • FireKracker
    FireKracker Member Posts: 5,858

    so when im done ill be on the broom to see you JOJO...

    If im alive that is.ha.

    thanks for the pocket party....im bringin snacks so its ok to come empty handed.just come.

    thanks

    huggggggggggggs K

  • ptdreamers
    ptdreamers Member Posts: 639

    i'll be in your pocket, then everyone can jump in mine. surgery for repairing broken wrist on friday or monday.will find which tomorrow.

  • denise-g
    denise-g Member Posts: 353

    Both my MO and Nurse Practitioner thought my 2 lumps on my Mastectomy breast were scar tissue, but told me to keep an eye on things.  I had a gut feeling they were, but wanted to ask about it.

  • gmafoley
    gmafoley Member Posts: 5,978
    Ultrasound tomorrow at 8:45 - I hate when the surgeon says he will call me with the results and if it is worrysome he will just take it out to make sure.... The last time he said that, I ended up with 2 surgeries.
  • gmafoley
    gmafoley Member Posts: 5,978

    Granny - I am with you on thursday - If you are too tired you don't have to come tomorrow morning for my ultrasound.. BS did say, "Never think you are crying wolf. It's better to be safe than sorry"

  • gmafoley
    gmafoley Member Posts: 5,978

    Ultrasound done - RO came in, looked and my whole scar in the ultrasound, went back to the pea sized lump and said he has no clue what it is, it could be scar tissue but he has seen cancer in that form too. He is going to suggest an MRI.Undecided $$$$$$ No insurance at this point to speak of - used it up on the LE therapy....

  • Cindyl
    Cindyl Member Posts: 498

    Agh Gma.  I was hoping for "definitly nothing to worry about" for you.  I have my appt. for a mammogram and follow up with the RO on the 22nd and 23rd.  Seems like a long way off.

  • omaz
    omaz Member Posts: 4,218
    Gma - sorry to hear that.  Can they do a biopsy instead of the MRI?  Is that less expensive?  
  • gmafoley
    gmafoley Member Posts: 5,978
    The RO at the center said "HE" couldn't do a biopsy because it didn't look totally like "my type of cancer". But I called the surgeon's office and gave him a heads-up, he can see the films before the report because they are linked together.  He said he would take it out if it was "worrysome" - (his pet word). Now waiting for the surgeon to call me back Undecided
  • omaz
    omaz Member Posts: 4,218

    Good plan!

  • FireKracker
    FireKracker Member Posts: 5,858

    PdDreamer---im with you even tho i dont know my name right now.know im there.

    GmaF---damn shit---im soo sorry.

    both of you feel my arms around you.

    gotta start drinkin the poison.grrrr....im starvin...just want this shit over with.

    huggggggggs everyone K

  • gmafoley
    gmafoley Member Posts: 5,978

    Granny: I pray everything is ok - (everything I was going to say wouldn't come out right).. I didn't want you to come over here and smack me with your broom.

  • sagina
    sagina Member Posts: 849

    Hi every one! I've been away waywayway too long. Trying to catch up on the posts, so sorry for the lumps and bumps and camera's where they don't belong!

    I have a permanent seroma in the lumpectomy breast. Feel like a golf ball sometimes, seems to swell with my monthly cycle, yes that I kept - couldn't get that side effect...nooooo. lol.  Funny you mention clothing. I'm a year out of rads and I can't stand certain fabrics touching my radiated skin, they "scratch me." I still can't lay on that side to sleep either, and bras hurt.

    But....someone told me the other day (that has never been though this....) that the more she hears about chemo and stuff the more she thinks why would anyone want side effects forever.....I told her at least I have a forever..... 

  • chabba
    chabba Member Posts: 3,600

    Good answer Gina.

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