Hello @kirstiekoala,
First I'm so sorry, I understand how you didn't rush into getting checked out when you found the lumps, I also had cysts removed from my breast and was told I had lots of benign cysts there, it made me "not too concerned" about keeping up with mammograms etc.
When I did find that a lump ( in fact 3) were cancers it was hard to take in, I also felt "numb" like you.
My specialist also tried to put me off have a double mastectomy, so I had to go through lumpectomy's which breached the margins anyway so after all that he agreed to do double mastectomy. I should've been more insistent to begin with.
Please be pushy with them, get on their backs about getting in quickly, ask your GP to again contact them. Push, push ,push. Soon it will be January and specialists, nurses and doctors will all start filtering back to work, so surely they can get you in if you have the energy to keep at them.
Also after Chemo when the surgery discussion comes up, be insistent that you definitely want a double mastectomy.
Sending you a big hug <3
xx
