new and future flat sister, with questions
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baby Fiona is simply beautiful. I have this urge to go buy cute baby clothes now.
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Ariom that's frustrating about the flying!! So close!! When will you find out about the biopsy results?
And I would LOVE to get to Australia one day. I really want to see Ayers Rock! I know someone else who lives near Melbourne so I am getting to know more Aussies. It's awesome.
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SGC that last pic is so cute, I think the baby smell is coming through my computer screen! lol
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Hi girls just got back!
Went in had U/S, the thing stuck out like, well excuse me, but Aussie saying "Dogs balls" the Radiographer said he wasn't sure what it was, went to get a Doctor who came in and did another U/S, he says it needs a Stereotactic Vacuum Assisted Core Biopsy, same as I had the first time. I am starting to get more nervous. Doctor numbs me up, can't feel a thing there anyway and he goes in for the first core sample and the sucker explodes on the screen!
It was cyst, even though no one thought that was what it was. They were all smiling and saying that it was a good thing! I burst into tears, not like me at all. Still have to wait for the Path results, but looks like it wasn't anything.
Doctor had Radiologist do more U/S all over chest and right up into Axilla and they both said it all looks fine.
I went out for lunch and did some shopping! Woo Hoo, for now!
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Kicking myself, I missed wishing ldesim a Happy Birthday for the 3rd!
I hope you had a lovely day! Hugs from me!
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Happy birthday ldesim. You snuck by us last year too.
Great news M. I know that's a relief.
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Woooohoooo
Happy dance for you!!!!!!
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Wow, M!! Exploded on screen???? Holy Crap!! SO happy to hear it was a cyst,, but wow,,, that must have been something,,,
I would have burst into tears too.
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Yay for an exploding cyst! I once had a cyst, they drained it and then it became infected! had never heard of such a thing until then. so glad it is ok.
Happy Birthday Idesim, many more!
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Happy Birthday idesim! Now there's a real-ass bitch.
M, so happy for your news, even though it was probably quite stressful and dramatic. Leave it to you to be gory! I had no doubt that you would shop after. What did you buy?
G, yes please let's do it again. We must go to a better tea place. There is a good one in the mall... is that too plebian for you?
Susan, F0ck walking on eggshells. Or ... get some eggs, blow the stuff out of them, thus leaving the empty shell. Then put them on floor and make a spectacle out of walking on them in front of DH, doing mincing geisha gestures as you do so, thus making performance art out of it. This is such a good actionable suggestion.
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Happy Birthday Idesim!
Ariom, Good news! Can you get a film of the explosion?
Did I tell you we have a new robin nest in our quince tree?
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the explosion would make a good Youtube video, no?
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Hi all! Thank you for all the well wishes, I really appreciate all of you!
I feel so much better this morning, a little sore in the area I have any feeling, but relieved. I didn't even think about keeping the visual of the disappearing lump.
Bobo, I thought I had left out the gory bits! LOL
I bought some new tops for me and shoes for Colin.
I love your visual of the walking on eggshells!
Wren, more baby Robins! I am envious of your Quince tree, I love Quince jelly. Take it easy everyone! M x
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Happy Birthday Idesim! Hope your day was fantastic!
Exploding cyst was quite a visual for me! I just can't get that image out of my head and yes, I would have cried, or possibly inappropriately laughed hysterically. My emotions would have been off the charts! So relieved for you M! So glad you went shopping.
Another Robin, Wren! How great! I don't think I have ever seen a Quince tree.
Bobo the geisha walking on egg shells was priceless. I don't think I would waste such a great idea on him. I just hum the old pop song "walking on broken glass". Yup, over and over. He really is quite contrite and said that he didn't think I really ment it. Well, I did, I do, oops didn't mean utter those two words again! Good news is that he hasn't said a word about what I eat, how much weight I have gained, or anything about my DD. Unfortunately, I won't be able to move until the end of the month, but for now silence is golden!
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Yes, but, S, now you've simply got to do it. You've got to do the eggshells.
More baby Robins! Birdie, you are like Snow White. Or was it Cinderella?
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Thanks sgc, sorry, I didn't mean for "exploded" to be such a visual, it was their words, not mine. It was about the size of a pinkie fingernail so not a huge eruption or anything!LOL
You make me laugh with your comments about your Husband. When I was in the process of getting my last Husband to move out, after he had told me about the 23 year old he fancied. I would leave the real estate pages with big red circles where he would see places to rent, he actually said "You're not going to cry are you?" and "You're not going to beg me to stay!" I just said "In a word, NO!"
We are actually still friends, as I am still friends with the one, before him too, who is Bec's Dad. The 23 year old didn't last, of course, for number 2, she left him for a friend of his and destroyed a younger family. I felt that we all had so much history and a Daughter that for me, life was too short to carry grudges.
The two of them took my Dx very badly and both made the long trip to visit me, just after my surgery. Life is funny isn't it? M x
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hey there everyone
I have missed a lot of posts here. ..... Had to do the colon yesterday prep (what a mess!) for colonoscopy today. No cancer just a little colitis so yay. That is all ok down there. Am now ready to settle into my new normal life. Got the salad spinner to help with bra drying. I also got some plastic shoe boxes to store my bras in so they don't get smashed in my drawers. We can't just go to the store to buy a bra so these need to really wear well...
Ariom. So very glad that was only a cyst.....they tend to reoccur so don't be alarmed. Now you know what it is if they do reoccur.
Sgc. Beautiful beautiful baby!!! What a joy for you!!!!
Bobo and Glennie----- how fun you got to meet!!!! Maybe someday we all can meet. I would love that!!!!
Going to curl up early tonite. Exhausted from that test. Have a blessed day to the Aussies snd a blessed evening to the............what are we called?
Love y'all
O2
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O2: glad that went well! It's not a fun prep, but at least it's over and there's nothing there.
It would be great if we could meet. Are you in Southern AL,,, that's not too far away!
glennie
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M - congrats on the good news! I probably would have cried too. After each stupid test I tell myself to quit worrying because we all know it doesn't change the outcome....but that doesn't stop me. I wish there was just some little switch I could flip on for 'calm'.
02 - aren't colonoscopy preps fun!! I'm supposed to do some genetic testing to see if I have a certain gene, and if I have it, they said I'd have to do a colonoscopy every year. Seriously? I don't think so. They also said that if I had the gene, it could affect my relatives ability to get life insurance. She paused and then said "it won't affect you though, because you've already had 2 cancers". Yeah lady, I know.. I'm doomed, and there's no one going to insure me. Got it. Thank you very much.
Susan - What a beautiful baby. You are so lucky to have that joy in your life. Everyone needs a little joy now and then. Hmm, I think I'm due. Note to self - try to find some joy today. Beer.. I might need some beer to find some joy
Idesim - Happy belated birthday to you. I used to think birthday's were over-rated..but I'm changing my mind these days. Birthdays are GREAT!
JLS - Thinking about you and hoping you are doing ok.
Wren - This is kind of late for a robin to be building a nest, isn't it? (I'm too lazy to google it) Last year we had a cardinal's nest in a tree right outside our window. We could watch it from inside the house. Our own little nature study. Reminds me of the time I had a big paper wasp nest on the door to the deck. It's a french door, so I was able to watch them build it from the first few pods until it was about 6-8 inches in diameter. I could see the wasps in the nest from inside the house - very cool! Anyhow - I had a curtain on it, and one day I lifted it back to look at the nest, and the glass in the door was completely shattered/cracked. It looked like frost! I remember thinking there was frost on the door..and then.. well shit it's July - that can't be frost! lol I often wonder if the heat of summer and the vibration of the wasps buzzing caused the glass to shatter. Funny end of the story - the guy that came to replace the glass was allergic to bees...so there I was on the deck with a fly swatter batting them down one by one as they returned to the 'nest' and he was replacing the glass. Good times!
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Someone here will come and get those paper nests along with the occupants. I don't know what he does with them. He will also get bee swarms, so I think he's probably in the business. The paper nests are very interesting.
I don't think it's too late for the robins. They fledge at 28 days and it's usually nice here until the first part of Oct. It sort of makes up for a summer that begins July 5. Fall is so pretty here until the rains start.
My on-line health record keeps reminding me that I need a colonoscopy in 2016. More time to dread it I guess.
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Back from my mammo. Not happy. First off, we do two films and I go into the room so she can look at them. Then she ultrasounds my breast. Reminds me that I have dense breasts (duh!) I had to remind her that Paget's wasn't my only diagnosis last year, that I also had DCIS. Then she decided to do two more films. SQUASH city. My poor right breast is not happy. So there are calcifications. however, when she looked back on last year's mammo,, and the year before,, and 2007! there were calcifications then too. So WHY get so excited about giving me a needle guided biopsy now??? Did you NOT see these calcifications all these other years? Are you only concerned cuz I had DCIS diagnosis? When I asked her what are the chances of having DCIS in the other breast,, she was really clueless,,, like there is no way of knowing that. Really? I would have thought a radiologist who specializes in this would be able to say,, oh 10% more than the general population,, or whatever! ( I have no idea,, I just threw that number out)
Anyway, she wants to do a needle guided biopsy. I am less than thrilled. If they go in and grab the specimen,, would that break open the duct,, and then possibly allow the DCIS to spread outside the duct? I mean,, it's happy in the duct at the moment,,, why mess with it?? And of course, we don't know that it's DCIS.
I called my GYN,, and of course, the office staff said,, they need the radiologist's report first before talking to anyone, and my GYN is out of the office this week. (SIGH)
So here's what I'm thinking: I see my MO on Sept 18th,, then I see my GYN for my preop appt for my hysterectomy on Sept 23th,, HX on Sept 29th. Honestly I see NO RUSH to get this done. I'm thinking about just going thru with my other appt's and surgery first, and then dealing with it. Thoughts??
and anyone who has had that needle guided biopsy,,, want to tell me about it? How much does it hurt? etc???
Thanks,,,, glennie
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I have had a guided needle biopsy, G. I have had all the biopsies. I was able to stand it. They try to numb the area pretty thoroughly. But it was extremely uncomfortable. And not painless. And I was completely sober. If it's the kind I had, they do an U/S, then look at it as they manipulate the needle. I have also had the (less preferable by far) core biopsy. I sent you some private advice about getting through the appt.
I say, go ahead and get it done. I know you are getting into HYS mode. But go ahead and get this done. It will be quick and then it will be out of the way. Guess I don't have to ask you if you are holding, do I? They don't provide anything at biopsy appts, incredibly.
Of course, if you are our M, you would just bite on a stick of celery or something and do the whole thing completely sober! M, still laughing about how I got us into trouble on that other thread. Whoops!
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I reply to myself. Regarding breaking it open, you might want to ask your BS about that. And then take what she says with a grain of salt. If it is DCIS, though, and you don't want to break it open, how will you know it is DCIS?
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Hey girls, nice to see you all this morning!
Glennie DCIS won't be an issue, "it doesn't have the ability to live beyond the duct", it has to go through changes at a cellular level to become IDC, which goes through the duct. I had this fear too, of seeding, but was told not to worry.
The micro-calcifications, in themselves, are nothing to worry about, it is when they become linear or form certain patterns that DCIS is indicated. Mine looked just like the Nike tick.
I have to say this, just to show you there is a range of experiences, not to contradict my girl Bobo, in any way. I know these procedures are different for all of us!
I am one who cannot have meds before a procedure, or surgery, because I have to feel in control. That's just me and if others get comfort or less pain from taking something, all power to them, but for me I can go into a panic if I don't feel completely clear headed. I have to be able to talk too, surprise, surpise! LOL
I haven't had the FNA, but I was with my Mother when she had one, sorry Bobo, no anesthetic and she was fine, no pain. I know Bobo thinks I am mad, she tells me so! No, not even a stick of celery for me, Bobo! LOL
I've had 2 Stereotactics and neither one caused me any pain at all, just the slight sting of the anesthetic for the first one. I was a bit uncomfortable after that first one, with some bruising, but that was all. This second one was performed where I am totally numb, across my chest, so not surprising, I felt nothing at all. I do feel slight bruising on the inside, but nothing really.
Bobo, I got a laugh out of that too! I didn't want them to think I was a troll and then I realized you called me M, they wouldn't have thought it was me, after all!
Glennie, I am with Bobo, get it done if the Surgeon agrees it is warranted and then move on. Of course it is up to you, no pressure. For me, mine turned out to be a mix of some grade 2, but more grade 3 which is faster changing, more aggressive cells, so I wanted it out pronto! Unlike you, mine had probably been present at my previous analogue mammos and missed, so having this Digital Mammo likely saved me from a very different outcome, had it been missed again...just sayin' M x
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M, what color pedicure should I get? Big appt this week. X
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I reply to myself. Glennie, don't listen to Ariom! She is one of those people Oprah talks about who doesn't feel pain and who can hold her hand over the open flame of a candle with no ill effects!
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02, glad all went well with your prep and colonoscopy, if nothing else you know you've had a good clear out and all's well.
Wren, we have a huge bee hive in the walls of the people's house next door. I was stung a couple of times before I realized where all the bees were coming from. In the Summer, you can hear the buzzing so loud in their yard. I had read that there was a serious problem with bee numbers, but our fruit trees were alive with them, little did I know they were just on the other side of our fence!
PRB, you were lucky with the wasps, they can turn ornery if you swat at them. They really scare me. I wonder how that glass broke? Lucky it didn't fall in and let the wasps into the house though, ooh that would be awful.
JSJ, I hope you are doing OK, thinking about you and Sailman often.
It is quite mild this morning and it is getting lighter earlier and staying light past 5pm now so we are over the hump of Winter! I have Daffodils and bulbs shooting in the garden and another of my Camelias is blooming. I can't wait for Spring! Take it easy girls..M x
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Bobo! I am wetting myself laughing at that! So is Colin, but I know you don't want to hear about the ops he has had, sans anesthetic!
You're right, I do have a high pain tolerance, really, only because of the RA, but even before that, I was much the same, always disliked meds associated with procedures, or pain killers afterwards.
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i looked at the mammo's,,, there were just dots. And they were there last year,, and the year before,,,,Apparently they didn't look important then.My boss had a stereotactic,, she said it hurt,, but she went shopping afterwards,, even tho it was draining!!
Maybe I can bite on a bullet. Hopefully it is not as painful as the needles in the nipple that I have endured. Like the biopsy for the Paget's,,,,,
Thanks for letting me know it won't live outside the duct,, that "seeding" was really worrying me.
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All this talk is just ridonculous. You should just stun yourself silly with V. As long as you're not driving, why split hairs? Don't listen to M -- she could yank herself bald while stone sober without any ill effects. I swear to god I am never doing another sober biopsy again.
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