Test Results are in................

Breast screen rang this morning to tell me that my results were negative, yes that's right NEGATIVE..... Yay, I don't have breast cancer and that I didn't need to go and see them this afternoon. Breastscreen will now continue to monitor the size of the lumps via mammograms every 2 years and if they don't change in shape or size things will continue as normal. If they do change then another biopsy will be needed. I can live with that. Needless to say I can't remember the last time I was this happy.... I'm also happy cause I didn't have to drive the 45 min drive to RPA and find parking. They are going to post me a copy of the Dr's report and also send it to my GP so she has a copy of it as well.

I also wish to acknowledge Jenny my Breastscreen Nurse Counsellor who is an absolutely lovely and caring person. I was pretty upset when I walked into the Centre on Monday and she couldn't do enough for me. She also held my hand during the core biopsy. Whilst Jenny will never read this, I just want to thank her so much you made the whole journey so much easier....

Thanks everyone for your kind words and thoughts during this past week. I really do appreciate it.

Brad too the day off today to go to the appointment with me and was disappointed that he didn't get to see where RPA is. Mmmmm not sure about his thinking there. We ended up walking around a shopping centre buying stuff that we probably didn't need to... Oh well.

Its also my cat Zac's 7th birthday today and he is being spoilt.... I've had him since he was 6 months old and it doesn't seem like 6 1/2 years have gone past. Time fly's when your having fun I guess.

And the waiting begins - hope this week goes quickly

I didn't sleep all that well last night, and it wasn't because of thinking about Friday and my results. More because I sleep on my right side or my stomach and I couldn't last night cause it hurt too much. Think I might have a bit of a stroll later this morning before the forecast rain comes and take it easy today. Unless its urgent work can wait a day till I'm feeling a bit better.

I don't have much else to day right now cause I haven't actually been up all that long so I better go and have some breakfast etc...

Hi to everyone and hope you all have a good day.

Edit:- 11.48 a.m. I've just been for a 45 minute stroll to the post office and back to get some parcels that I wasn't home for yesterday. Its a bit overcast today and is forecast to rain later on.

I've been thinking about the past few days and am really amazed how strong I have been especially with my eating. I haven't emotionally eaten once. Whilst some of my choices yesterday were not great (I had to use some points from my weekly allocation) that was more because of the lack of healthy food around the Hospital. Mind you if I'd turned left out of the hospital instead of right, I would have been able to walk up to King St Newtown and there are lots and lots of great places to eat there, but then again my mind wasn't really with it at lunch time. I really can't believe that they have McDonald restaurants next to Hospitals cause their food is crap, even their healthy menu is not really that healthy....

I'm also amazed how comfortable I have been being half naked around complete strangers. I have pretty big breasts and not once during the process have I felt uncomfortable.

Whilst the mammograms do not hurt, they can be uncomfortable for between 10-20 seconds when they compress the breast to take the picture, I'd much prefer the biopsy process as you don't feel a thing (thanks to the local that they give you).

Breast Screen update

I've just gotten home from picking Brad up and from being at the RPA (Royal Prince Alfred Hospital). I ended up being at RPA all day (from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.). I found out from the first mammogram they found 1 lump in my left breast and 3 in my right breast. Today when I had a 2nd mammogram and the lump they thought they saw in my left breast isn't there anymore, so that's good news but the 3 in my right breast were still there. So then I had to have an ultrasound to see if they were fatty cysts or if they were hard. Unfortunately they are hard. This afternoon I had a core biopsy's done on the 3 lumps in my right breast. They think the lumps are not cancerous but I have to wait until Friday to find out for sure.

Oh and yes I did let Brad all about it as I had to explain to him why I was late in picking him up. He was really good about it all and didn't even get mad that I had kept it from him until today.