Around 4 weeks ago I had a fine needle tes.  Two weeks later I was booked for phone appointment with my doctor - senior consultant.

phone appointment below.

Senior consultant:  so you have a swallen lump under your eir that grows slowly?!

I: yes, that's correct

SC: we need to investigate further. I'll book you for MRI scan

I: Byt I had already MRI scan around 6 weeks ago.  We had phone appointment since.  In factI had a fine needle test two weeks ago and I thought this appointment was about results.

SC: hold the line, let me check.

short while later.

SC: there was not enough tissue for results.

I: you told me you thought it was benign.

SC: I still think so. On MRI scan it doesn't look like cancer.  May be we just take the whole thing out?

I (a bit scared): don't we need to know what it is first?  May be I need core needle test?

SC:  ok, I'll book you for core needle test.

A week later at the same radiologist who did a fine needle test for me.  The doctor seid that actually tissue sumples taken inittialy were enough, but they didn't confirm what they expected.  When i asked what they expected, she said that on MRI scan it looked like cancer, so they expected canser.

NOW, I'm not only confused (since I had two opposite opinion), but thinking of changing doctor as well.

I called SC's secretary tuday and apparantly they have latest results back already.  So, tomorrow, on my birthday, at some point, hopefully I'll get a phone call and will be told that I have cancer (there's no other suspect).