Hello @Mareealso and thank you for the kind words. I am wishing you all the best on your journey.
When my GP sent my urgent referral through to the Breast Clinic at the hospital, they emailed her back saying they received it and then told her my first appointment wouldn't be until the end of January (this was at the beginning of December). I don't know what happened, or if I have my doctor to thank, but 3 hours after she got that information, the Breast Clinic called me in and said to come in the next day. so all the tests/biopsies/imaging got rushed through but because of the Christmas break, the hospital is currently on skeleton staff. I can't be angry or annoyed because I understand. Most businesses will close down over the break and I understand that medical staff also want to spend time with their loved ones. But i also know that there is 12 of us, including myself, that have been listed as priority 1, to see the surgeon oncologist. I'm guessing its just a case of finding a spot open. I was warned i will probably only get about 24 hours notice via phone. I was told I would have to have neoadjuvant chemotherapy before anything else but I actually don't know what that is. I have already told my Breast Clinic physician that I want a full mastectomy as all the women in my family that have had breast cancer, only had lumpectomies and it kept coming back until they did a mastectomy. the physician has been trying to talk me out of because of my age. wait and see, i guess.
