Hi MickeyM,

A very warm welcome to our forum. 

Stereotactic biopsy will give your team the chance to look at your breast in more detail. This doesn't always signify bad news, but is a good sign that your care team is being thorough. It is impossible to find out much until the results of your biopsy come back and you know exactly what you are dealing with. You should find some information about DCIS and calcifications on the Cancer Research Website. Try to avoid consulting Dr Google, as much of his information is out of date, poorly researched and aimed at the more spectacular cases. This will only serve to worry you further.

There is a lady called Karen1971 on the forum. She has been posting under the title ‘Waiting on breast biopsy results.’ If you do a search for her, you may be able to help one another through this.

Please keep in touch and let us know how you get on. We are always here for you.

Kind regards,

Jolamine xx

Thank you Jolamine, your reply was really helpful and appreciated. Thank you so much for taking the time xx 

Morning Jolamine, 

That sounds like a big chunk of your time at the Lymphoedema Clinic and so I'm really pleased for you that the staff are so good and that you benefit from their treatment. Must be very weird looking like the Michelin Man, I expect it feels it too. You amaze me how positively you handle everything, I'm sure there must be days when it is harder than others. Sending my positivity and big hugs to you.

I did manage a walk yesterday, which was great.  Raining heavily today, so we'll have to see if there is a break in the weather later. 

I will update you later after I've seen the BCN.  

Love and hugs Mickey xx ️

Hi Jolamine, 

All went well today, dressing removed over tummy. They're very pleased and so I don't need to go back until I see the Plastic Surgeon on 18th March. 

Not such good news with my results appointment, which has now been arranged by phone for 24th January (six weeks). Secretary says this could change if MDT feel a face to face is needed once results back, but currently they are only now offering phone results appointments due to delays. I expect staffing issues due to covid are playing a huge role in that.

Hope you've had a good day - Mickey xx ️

Hi Mickey,

I'm glad to hear that all went well with the BCN today  and that the dressing is now off your tummy. It's not so good to hear that you now have to wait until 24th January for a telephone consultaton re your results. This frequently changes, so don't give up hope of an earlier appointment.

Today was a miserably wet day here too, so it's good that you managed to get a walk yesterday. I can't say that the Lymphoedema treatment is much fun. I have my down days like everyone else, but it is what it is and I just have to cope with it. 

I hope that you have a better day today.

Love, Jolamine xx

Morning Jolamine, 

Thank you for your kind words. Fingers crossed I get my results earlier. 

Bless you, certainly a rollercoaster and sending a load of virtual hugs to store when you need them. 

Wet again here today, but hopefully will get a little walk later. 

Love Mickey xx ️
 

Hi Mickey,

I hope that you managed to get out for a walk again today, despite the rain. I have spent all day today removing personal files from my business computer for the new buyer and am going goggle eyed as a result. I've still got more to do, but at least I've broken the back of the job.

Yes, a cancer diagnosis is often a rollercoaster, but fortunately, most of us do get through the worst of it pretty soon.

Love,

Jolamine xx

Happy New Year Jolamine, here's hoping it's kinder to everyone. Love Mickey xx ️

Hi Mickey,

A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to you too and I sincerely hope that this will be the year when we all get back to a more 'normal' life.

Kind regards,

Jolamine xx

Virtual hugs Mickey 

Never far from my thoughts, I'm so glad to finally read you've got that hurdle out of the way I kept wondering how you were doing.

Sending love to you

Lisa xxx

Happy New Year Jolamine 

I didn't want to pass the page without saying a quick hello.

I hope things are good with you too

Virtual love and hugs back to you Lisa. How lovely of you to have come back on the site to check on me. 

Yes, I'm so grateful the surgery is finally behind me and on the whole it's gone really well. I have had a little bother with my tummy - Seroma and a part of wound that hasn’t healed and is weeping a bit of gunk, so was back at hosp last week and back again this morning. I doubt they’ll do anything re then gunk or wound and they said the Seroma will just have to go itself as no localised area to aspirate.  I’m a lot more tired than I thought I would be and it’s put me off doing my exercises as I’m worried I’ll open the wound more, but otherwise, I’m fine and getting on with things that I can and walking.  Once again just waiting for results and praying no lymph node involvement. Six weeks for these results now, telephone apt scheduled for 24th Jan. 

How are you doing Lisa? 

Love n hugs Mickey xx ️

Virtual love and hugs back to you Lisa. How lovely of you to have come back on the site to check on me. 

Yes, I'm so grateful the surgery is finally behind me and on the whole it's gone really well. I have had a little bother with my tummy - Seroma and a part of wound that hasn’t healed and is weeping a bit of gunk, so was back at hosp last week and back again this morning. I doubt they’ll do anything re then gunk or wound and they said the Seroma will just have to go itself as no localised area to aspirate.  I’m a lot more tired than I thought I would be and it’s put me off doing my exercises as I’m worried I’ll open the wound more, but otherwise, I’m fine and getting on with things that I can and walking.  Once again just waiting for results and praying no lymph node involvement. Six weeks for these results now, telephone apt scheduled for 24th Jan. 

How are you doing Lisa? 

Love n hugs Mickey xx ️

It's so lovely to hear from you,

What you've had done sounds painful,  I really hope recovery is as speedy as possible - you sound like a trooper getting yourself walking that's really good to hear.

You're doing amazing.

I'll be praying that your lymph nodes are good  too and the wound heals soon, keep a close eye on it though.

With everything that has happened how is that shoulder behaving? Mine finally eased off just before Xmas and I'm doing okay now thanks, went for my first walk in months - honestly I felt like getting a taxi back

I'll keep you in my thoughts Mickey, be counting down the days for you, in the meantime sending you a huge, huge hug and tons of love xxxx

Hi Lisa, 

Thanks for your support and lovely message. 

Just quick update re the frozen shoulder as I can't remember where I was when we last spoke about it.  I had an ultrasound early December. I nearly didn't go because having religiously done my exercises so that they could move my arm during the long BC op, I had good movement back by then.  Anyway, I went and that showed calcifications  also, which I was told had been there long term.  I then had an x-ray last Wed and my consultant apt last Thur.  They were very thorough and he's suggested that to reduce the risk of reoccurrence when I get back to work/gym that I do upper back and shoulder exercises and he's given me some and told me what to do when I get back to the gym. I'm not allowed to do them until I'm fully recovered post op, but I felt more confident.  He also offered to refer me to physio, but the waiting list was longer than the one I'm already on post op and so I dismissed that for now. 

I'm glad yours has finally eased off and as for walking, it gets easier the more often I do it and so I do try to go every day. Always makes me feel better and one of the benefits of being in recovery at this time of year is that I can still get a walk in daylight. 

Take care of you and keep walking - love and hugs Mickey xx ️