Pea-n-Me
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- Joined
- Jul 18, 2004
GAGWTA! 
Congratulations on 7 years, Laura - I love the sound of that!!
And thanks for sending us the rain. 
Sounds like you have reason to get some rest, hope you have a quiet day today. My kids were off this week so I'm kind of tired, too, lots of running around.
My neighbor across the street lost her son the other night, he died in his sleep. We came home late and her house was all lit up and there were tons of cars there, I knew something was wrong. He was a little younger than me, had a longstanding seizure disorder - when he lived here there would often be ambulances there in the middle of the night. He was her only child.
I was going to make a turkey dinner today, I think I'll bring her a plate and maybe some daffodils (or maybe that might be too much of a reminder later on??). Any other ideas, I'm feeling kind of stymied.
I thought I was a goner if after finishing up 8 doses of 3 different types of chemo I had a new spot. Biopsy done next day came back negative. They wanted to be sure it wasn't a false negative, so they recommended an excisional biopsy where they place a wire in the spot and take the whole thing out and re-biopsy it.
Well, it had been one heck of a difficult year in our house already. My twins' 7th birthday party was coming up, and I told them I wanted to wait to do the excisional biopsy until after the party, since at the party the previous year I'd been waiting for my original results and I just wanted to be in a good frame of mind this year without all the worry. I prayed for a miracle, and remember saying wouldn't it be nice if it just disappeared?
So I show up at the hospital weeks later and the (different) radiologist is trying to find the spot in order to place the wire, and he's fishing around and fishing around with the ultrasound and finally announces he can't find the spot. (He actually got a little testy when in response to his query of did I have any questions I asked him (through my tears) 3 times "are you sure there's nothing there? LOL) My surgeon came in the room and gave me the option of taking the entire area out anyway (a CYA maneuver, I'm sure) but with a negative biopsy already and no spot found that day, I said no. We agreed to follow up in 3 months which we did and there was nothing there again, nor has there been since, including on my recent breast MRI.
Interestingly enough, the second radiologist told me had he been the one to read the mammogram and ultrasound the day I had the original ones done, he would have "sent me home". He saw the "spot" as normal breast tissue. When I told him how the original was done right before my period, he said it was probably related to a premenstrual change. After that, my doctors told me to just have my mammograms done at the hospital for consistency which I've been doing. I don't fault the original radiologist because I believe he had my best interest at heart considering my history - I'd rather have it that way than the other. But sometimes what one person sees is not the same as someone else would see.
I post this story to illustrate how complicated these things can sometimes be and how interpreting images is not an exact science. I don't know that this is the case with you, but it is what happened to me which is why I asked about your cycle. If anything similar happens to me in the future I will probably ask for repeats in several weeks before going through all the hoopla, but that's just me based on my own experience (I doubt you want to wait so long). I'm hoping everything comes turns out well for you.
Congratulations on 7 years, Laura - I love the sound of that!!
And thanks for sending us the rain. Sounds like you have reason to get some rest, hope you have a quiet day today. My kids were off this week so I'm kind of tired, too, lots of running around. My neighbor across the street lost her son the other night, he died in his sleep. We came home late and her house was all lit up and there were tons of cars there, I knew something was wrong. He was a little younger than me, had a longstanding seizure disorder - when he lived here there would often be ambulances there in the middle of the night. He was her only child.
I was going to make a turkey dinner today, I think I'll bring her a plate and maybe some daffodils (or maybe that might be too much of a reminder later on??). Any other ideas, I'm feeling kind of stymied. I've posted about it here a couple of times, but on my first mamms post treatment (lumpectomy, chemo and radiation) they found a vague spot on my other breast. It was also either the day before or day of my period (i.e. the time when breasts are the most swollen). Anyway, the radiologist thought it should be biopsied. My surgeon told me it looked like a new cancer.scrappinmom said:
I thought I was a goner if after finishing up 8 doses of 3 different types of chemo I had a new spot. Biopsy done next day came back negative. They wanted to be sure it wasn't a false negative, so they recommended an excisional biopsy where they place a wire in the spot and take the whole thing out and re-biopsy it. Well, it had been one heck of a difficult year in our house already. My twins' 7th birthday party was coming up, and I told them I wanted to wait to do the excisional biopsy until after the party, since at the party the previous year I'd been waiting for my original results and I just wanted to be in a good frame of mind this year without all the worry. I prayed for a miracle, and remember saying wouldn't it be nice if it just disappeared?
So I show up at the hospital weeks later and the (different) radiologist is trying to find the spot in order to place the wire, and he's fishing around and fishing around with the ultrasound and finally announces he can't find the spot. (He actually got a little testy when in response to his query of did I have any questions I asked him (through my tears) 3 times "are you sure there's nothing there? LOL) My surgeon came in the room and gave me the option of taking the entire area out anyway (a CYA maneuver, I'm sure) but with a negative biopsy already and no spot found that day, I said no. We agreed to follow up in 3 months which we did and there was nothing there again, nor has there been since, including on my recent breast MRI.
Interestingly enough, the second radiologist told me had he been the one to read the mammogram and ultrasound the day I had the original ones done, he would have "sent me home". He saw the "spot" as normal breast tissue. When I told him how the original was done right before my period, he said it was probably related to a premenstrual change. After that, my doctors told me to just have my mammograms done at the hospital for consistency which I've been doing. I don't fault the original radiologist because I believe he had my best interest at heart considering my history - I'd rather have it that way than the other. But sometimes what one person sees is not the same as someone else would see.
I post this story to illustrate how complicated these things can sometimes be and how interpreting images is not an exact science. I don't know that this is the case with you, but it is what happened to me which is why I asked about your cycle. If anything similar happens to me in the future I will probably ask for repeats in several weeks before going through all the hoopla, but that's just me based on my own experience (I doubt you want to wait so long). I'm hoping everything comes turns out well for you.
We are not doing the dining plan though as we are staying at the Swan. I do have the DDE card though which helps!
though we did have light lemonade 
I'm back. The wait in the office was forever! My appointment was at 3:20 and it's 5:30 and I literally just walked in the door! The procedute itself was ok I guess, I was on my back, and it did hurt a little. THANK you to whoever told me about the loud noise! What she said is to call Wednesday morning to see if they got the results. However, she said that it looked suspicious enough to her, that evenif it came back benign she would still recommend the surgical biopsy because it looked suspicious enough. So what does THAT mean????
I'm still confused by what she said too..it was a breast surgeon that did the biopsy. What she said was that because it was so small, she would consider doing a surgical biopsy? I'm thinkig she meant going in and removing the whole thing? Only if you give me some valium hunny! I have to call my doctor on Wednesday afternoon. 
In any event,please know that our thoughts and prayers are with you, and you ARE going to be fine!!!
