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Biopsy inside my cheek

Jax7
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I had an ulcer inside my mouth for a long time, probably a year maybe slightly more 18 months and it didn't heal but I had so much other things going on with my body I didn't deal with it. About four weeks ago I had a biopsy took a small lump from inside my cheek, but said it didn't look ominous or cancerous. I'm having the results on 20th December and have an appointment to go in which has worried me. I thought they would telephone me and give me the results if they were negative so I'm now worrying that something positive has shown up. Is that the case that they bring you in for an appointment when there is something to tell you about cancer and they phone you if it's not cancer? It's so sore it's not healing well and has actually healed with a very thick  heart kind of lumpy patch over the top of where it was Cut, which is worrying me.

 Heart kind of lumpy patch over the top of where it was cut which is worrying me.

I've also got black spots inside my cheeks that I think look like blood spots. And I have a couple on the side of my tongue. What does that mean? 

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    Hard to know what you mean by blood spots because you have the types caused by injury, which are very common and tend to be nothing to worry about because they're pretty common with injuries (biting, hard foods, dental work etc), and you've had that work done. Then there's petechiae which is rash like, and can also be caused by injury. It's caused by tiny capillaries under the skin bursting. But again, you've had a procedure that explains that away, so all in all, nothing really to worry about. They should all disappear with time.

    About the phone call v face to face meeting. It honestly means nothing. People have been given bad news over the phone, people have been given bad news face to face, and vice versa. It just depends on the hospital and its capacity to deal with things. It can even just come down to how the treating doctor prefers to do things. I seriously wouldn't go reading too much into that. Easy to say, i know, but it really means nothing.

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