boiopsy prayer

[Janet]

Just wanted to let you know you're still in my prayers. Stay positive!

[Gina]

Hi Joyce and welcome. I hope that you get all the answers when you go to the dr. and like Diana mentioned take someone with you , for when we are nervous we tend not to listen to well. I had a cancer scare last Dec. they thought I had toe cancer but thank God it was just an injury... Good luck I am sure all will be well. You will be in my prayers.

Originally Posted by Janet

Just wanted to let you know you're still in my prayers. Stay positive!

Thanks! I am trying to stay positvie, but It isn't easy. I am so scared and feel like my life is moving fast and I am on the outside looking in. Consultation with the surgeon is on December 23.........Merry Christmas to me. gee I wonder if the Biopsy will be new years!

[paula1961]

Joyce I certainly hope all goes well at your consultation! Keep us posted. Hugs to ya!

Originally Posted by paula1961

Joyce I certainly hope all goes well at your consultation! Keep us posted. Hugs to ya!

Thanks, I appreciate the support. I am so stressing over this!

[gja1000]

I know you are stressing! I've had two lumps with two biopsies. It is so hard to wait to get it out. The first time I had it done, I was 27 and had to sign a consent form for a radical mastectomy, if the lump was found to be cancer. That's the way they did things back then, if it was cancer at the biopsy, they just went right ahead and took off the breast. Thankfully, it wasn't cancer and neither was the second biopsy.

They no longer do the mastectomy right away because many lumps can be treated with a lumpectomy. The best thing you can do is just not stress about it. I know that is so hard - but stress is so hard on your body in so many ways. Try to enjoy the holidays and just go on with your life right now. Stressing won't change anything at all. You have the appointment, you are going to get it taken care of, that is all you can do right now!

Easy for me to say, huh! We are all here for you!

[Marilyn]

I've had two lumps too. The first one I was in my early 30's and was really stressing. Our girls were young, and who was going to raise them if anything happened to me. Of course they still would have their dad, but they needed me. We went out of town for the weekend, and prayed that it would be nothing major. When I went back to the surgeon for a followup mammogram to locate the lump for the surgery, it was not there. There was a shadow where it had been, but the lump was gone. They couldn't figure out what happened, but just did followup mammograms.

About 3 years ago, another lump showed up on a routine mammogram. They did ultrasound, needle biopsy and got me all upset and excited again. They did a lumpectomy and it turned out to be a form of pre-cancer. They called it carcinoma, but it was not malignant. For a while I took reloxofin (sp?) for prevention of breast cancer, but it made my joints ache so much that I felt like a very elderly woman. The oncologist told me if my side effects were that bad, to stop taking it. I was getting mammograms every 6 months, but now once a year, and so far so good.

I know how scary all of this can be and how worried you can get about your future. All I can offer is a suggestion that you pray fervently for favorable results, let God take control and try to relax and enjoy the time of year. Spend some time in God's word. There is lots of encouragement there. If we love Him, he will care for us. That care may be to take us home if that's His wish, but He offers us much comfort.

My prayer for you is that it is nothing serious, just a benign bump of some kind and that you have many happy and healthy years ahead. Take care, and you are in my prayers, too.

[judy]

I am so sorry you are going through this! I am praying for a good outcome.