CRAZY TOWN WAITING ROOM - TESTS coming up? All Stages Welcome.
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I too have gone through the anxiety of waiting for test results. I had a CT Scan last week and the Practical Nurse was supposed to call me as per the doctor's orders to let me know the results and she didn't. Did not find out this information until I saw my MO this week. Thankfully I saw the results on the patient portal for the hospital where I go for tests. There is no reason for patients to have to live with the anxiety of are the test results good or bad!
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Poppy, what a horrible thing to do to you! What's wrong with some of these doctors?! They know how anxious we are to get the results back. When I called my PCP to get the results from him he was on vacation. The gals in his office knew how anxious I was and e-mailed my results to him and he took the time to call me and give me the results. I have an appointment with him on Tuesday just to catch up and go over some of my meds that may interfere with the Tamoxifen once I'm on it. I love him to pieces!
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Poppy it was Lucy that suggested driving over - but I totally agree. They can release it to you... Other thing I do is request a copy to me from the lab. They have to give it to you.
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Ugh, Poppy I am so sorry.
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Poppy, double ugh from me too. I think I'd be having hubby drive me over to camp out in the office by now. Sorry you are having to wait so long Poppy. Thinking of you and hope it all works out.
My own CT update: just got back from visit with Dermatologist. He did a full body check, and saw nothing of concern other than the two areas I had mentioned in my earlier post. You were right, Molly, the one on my nose was a actinic keratosis, he did a quick cryosurgery and froze it with liquid nitrogen, said that was all I would need. It was not until I left his office that I realized that it is/was located exactly where my glasses fall on my bridge of my nose (I tend not to wear my glasses unless i need to drive)....I hope that isn't going to cause problems, with the glasses rubbing against the lesion area. I see they already set up a patient portal for me so I will email about that. The other spot that I thought was a mole is a blood blister, but he did say that while unlikely to be cancer, it is possible for cancer to 'hide' under the blister, so he biopsied it just in case. That stung, and my stomach is a little sore, but as he said, better to test and be safe than to be sorry. Will get results in a week or two, so fingers crossed!
Hopefully it is nothing and I won't see him again for a year for another check!
Thinking of all the crazies,
Octogirl
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I go back next Friday to the derm to get the full face treatment of my AK's. I have lots and what you described sounded just like them, Octo. I get UV light tx because of the vast number I have. I will have that sunburned look Easter weekend. Oh well, I am not going anywhere anyway.
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Not (too) crazy myself--I wore out my anxieties on computer classes--but the first genuinely warm, genuinely spring weather here always leaves me wistful for a porch swing and a glass of lemonade. So I'll send you all the thought of a get-together on the CrazyTown Inn's porch, with the beverage of your choice and the seat that works best for you: firm, poofy-cushioned, high, low, swinging. Just rest assured that here, wicker never leaves tell-tale latticing.....
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A cushioned porch swing, glass of iced tea and my fur baby husky, Wiley. Sounds like a good plan for the Crazy Town get together.
Sorry Lucy for mixing up your idea to drive over for the results. I'm feeling tired. Probably from all of the stress from waiting. I'm keeping myself busy, but staying close to my phone. DH is just so mad about the results being in, but me not knowing what they are.
Happy Weekend Everyone!
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Happy Weekend to you too Poppy, and to all the crazies. Try to get some rest. As for me, I'll take a rocker and a slightly spiked glass of that lemonade....
Hugs;
Octogirl
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Finally have the results. Benign calcifications. Full report next week.... but it's all benign. Thanks for the support!
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Yaaay!!!!
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Poppy ..Woot Woot ..I am SO happy for you ..!!!
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That is wonderful Poppy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hugs to all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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yahoo for benign results
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Happy Dance for Poppy!
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Where is that hula girl!!!!!? Ditto on the happy dance!!! Yay Poppy, wonderful news!
Octogirl
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Poppy - great news!
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PoppyK, woot woot!! Hooray for good news!!!
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Great news, Poppy! I can't believe all you went through to get it.
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Had a little scare last night and this a.m. Last year, the night before my London trip I fell outside a parking garage and scraped the hell out of my R elbow--it got infected and couldn't buy anitibiotic ointment to treat it properly--I left mine home, thinking you could buy darn near everything OTC in Europe. Nope--not in the UK, where I had to make do with antiseptic spray and big bandaids, nor in Switzerland, where a pharmacist warned me to see a doctor as soon as I got to Paris. (In Paris, the pharmacist not only sold me abx ointment and dressed the wound, but Ventolin inhalers & Celebrex OTC as well).
So I felt some stinging & burning in my L pinky, but couldn't see anything till I trained a lighted magnifier on it: it was either a wood or metal sliver fully embedded in the skin. Couldn't see any entry point. Put abx ointment and a bandaid on it. Woke up this morning and it looked like a pustule had formed. Great-- first my gel manicure is falling apart, three nails splitting, and I can't get a repair appt., and now an infection. So I went to the clinic inside CVS--the nurse dripped some saline on it and squeezed--and it popped right out! Whew. Better pack nail glue and spare gel polishes...and neosporin ointment, plus some ibuprofen, naproxen, & melatonin, all Rx-only in the UK.
Off I go to start packing before we hradbout to one of those Brazilian steakhouses for dinner tonight. Considering pulling an all-nighter so I will be sleepy enough to catch some zzzzs onboard tomorrow (the flight is a red eye) since I will arrive at my hotel too early Mon. for my room to be ready so I can nap. Every day on the trip will start obscenely early, for tours and classes--earlier still if I want to hit the hotel gym before breakfast.
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best wishes for your trip, Sandy
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oh sandy, sounds pretty brutal but i must say, the walk in clinics can be a real life saver. Have usedd them for my silly utis a few times
Went to a polish luncheon yesterday, pork, keilbasa and of course porogese, sorry for spelling. Fun and tons of food. I have a gym pal who keeps herself busy with things like this that she somehow finds in the paper, all free!
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YAY Poppy! I'm doing the happy dance for you also! You should not have had to wait so long for the results.
Sandy, your trip sounds wonderful but very busy. Safe travels my friend!
Iris, I love Polish food! Yummy!
My DH told me we'd go on a real vacation once my treatments were over. He asked me if I'd figured out where I wanted to go yet? He says the world is at my feet! Any and all suggestions appreciated!
I thought Madagascar but after watching a documentary on what's left of it I don't want to see it in person :-(
HELP 😳
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Come up to New England. If you have never been here before, you'll like it.
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Lori ...Yes ..Come to Australia and your welcome to stay with us 😘
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well jersey shore with a side visit to nyc is my offer
Then again have you done the alaskan cruise yet..my wish for sure
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Such wonderful ideas, I think it's making my job harder. I want to visit all of you! 😍
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ChiSandy, melatonin is prescription only in the UK? Wow, I'm picturing insomniacs running an underground market!
Lori, your husband sounds awesome. It's going to be hard to pick where to go.
Tomorrow I've got labwork and semi-annual xrays for my oncology checkup, and then on Tuesday I've got my Mohs surgery. I'm going to have the dermatologist look at a couple more spots that I'm concerned about at the same time. Then Thursday I have a recheck with my PCP for my blood pressure. It's going to be a busy week. My PCP thinks my high blood pressure is due to stress (stress? what stress?
) but I think it's the Armidex and Lupron. It's right there as a side effect on both medications. 0 -
Cubbie, I'll be in your pocket. Busy week for you!
Lori, Have you ever been to Paris? Amazing! and Romantic, too. On my travel list is Australia and an Alaskan inside passage cruise with a side trip to Denali. My Great-great grandpa was a gold rush miner in Alaska.
My oldest son now says he wants to go to college in Australia. He spent about 3 weeks in Australia when he was 11. He has always loved Australia, but that's a bit farther away with his depression issues.
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In your pocket, Cubbie. Anywhere sounds good to me as far as travel goes.
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