Terrified
Hi. This is my first post to the network, but I really need to vent. I am terrified. I was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 46 in late 2014. A lumpectomy, six chemotherapy sessions and 6 we...
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Angg66,
I was sent for a bone scan prior to possible chemo after my second triple negative surgery(2008 and 2014). The report said "two likely sites of skeletal metastatic disease". Oncologist pretty much said we were dealing with secondary breast cancer in the bones and sent me off for CT and MRI to find out what else there might be before deciding what chemo to prescribe.
Public patient - three days wait for scans then back to oncologist in 7 days. One week to get my head around having secondary - very very stressful - came to terms with what ever I had to deal with.
Got to appointment and the results had not been received !!!!! - waited 2 and a half hours for it to come thru...........turned out to be a "subacute fracture of right 5th rib" and a "transverse fracture thru the 5th sacral segment which appears subacute". So it was a broken rib and tail bone after a fall I had about a month before surgery. Was quite a fall with lots of bruising but was not in need of attention from a dr.
I hope you manage to get some good results before July. It is insane to make you wait so long.
I would also recommend Cancer Council 1311 20 for someone to talk to.
Beverley