My title makes me think of Kevin Nealon in Happy Gilmore: "Harness Good, Block Bad"... Anyway.
Thank you all for your comments/thoughts and prayers and texts, in some cases. They really meant a lot.
I was pretty down when I wrote that post, and was feeling helpless and terrified. I tend to wallow in things, to breathe them in for processing. But I didn't want to do that this time. Still I jumped on Doctor Google, and for once he put my mind at ease. If there are cancer cells, it will indeed be very early stage and it can be sucessfully treated. Which made me feel a bit better.
So I have mostly just been trying to keep my mind off of it. My biopsy is Tuesday, and Brian will be going with me. They will give me a local to numb the area, and from start to finish it should be about 90 minutes. I'll need to take it easy for 24 hours, meaning no lifting Leah. I should expect tenderness for a few days and bruising for a few weeks. They will send the Biopsy to Pathology, and I should have the results within 72 hours. Which means, I should have them before next weekend. Nice to know I won't have to wait too long.
I think the questions that keep running through my head are:
Is this linked to the hormones I took during IVF?
Does this mean I should avoid another pregnancy? (we still have the one frozen embie we were planning to transfer in the next year or two)
Does the concentration of calcification put me at higher risk to develop Breast Cancer?
If they are pre-cancerous or even cancer cells, does getting them at such a young age (34) mean I am at a higher risk to develop more in the future?
To Be Continued...
3 comments:
Thinking about you and sending strength and love.
In someways, seeing your posts about what you are going through with your health, let's me know that you are coping. You are using what has worked for you in writing it out and processing it all. So glad you feel the love and support of those who care so much about you.
As for the questions, keep writing them down as you think of them and take them to your next appointment. I will be thinking of you on Tuesday and through the wait of hopefully getting news before the weekend. You are in my prayers, ladie. (Hugs)
Sending you prayers! I don't know that much about this kind of thing, but I don't think calcifications put you at a higher risk for developing breast cancer.
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