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6 months pregnant and newly diagnosed
Hi All Newly diagnosed and 6 months pregnant with my 3rd son. Wow what a hectic 2 weeks iots been. Suspicous nipple sore, specialist, biopsy (YEEEOW), more biopsies, scans, diagonsis (stage 2, grade 3 ductile), masectomy - all between 17th dec and xmas! My head is still spinning. I think I'm comfortable the oncologist and…
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Liver lesions
Hi All I am aware my questions about this need to be directed to my medical team but thought I would also throw it out here as well. I am not sure if anyone else has had the experience where during a staging CT scan they found a lesion on the liver. I was diagnosed early in March 2016 and because they found cancer in 1…
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Beautiful strangers
The Kindness of strangers. Over Easter at the caravan park at Alex Headland we met a really nice couple from Moree in NSW. The lady whose name was Anne, saw my Zonta pillow & explained how both her mother & Grandma had suffered from breast cancer & she was a member of Zonta herself. On getting ready to leave this kind…
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Time for another change ... aka alternate route ahead!
Woops!!!! Here we go again. Just got back from my appointment with my surgeon to get the results from my bone scan and ct scan (which I'd already gotten from my gp/boss yesterday) So I assumed that we'd just be confirming and discussing my surgery for this coming Thursday.... WRONG! woops I forgot that my surgeon had done…
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The beginning of my BC Journey
So hard to believe how your whole world can be turned upside down in one Dr's consultation. Breast Cancer...me???? It still seems unbelievable. Over the past 12 days I have been through the barrage of Mamograms, biopsies, Research programme, MRI, CT scans, blood tests. The bone scan to go and then in 2 more days I will be…
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Just diagnosed
Hello All, I have just been diagnosed with TNBC. I had a lumpectomy a few weeks ago followed by a sentinel node biopsy and re-excision margin on Monday. It is comforting to see I am not alone in all of this. I go back to the Breast Surgeon on Thursday for the results and yes the waiting is the worst for me, my husband,…