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[Beacon]

I have been posting about my breast difficulties. Today we did needle biopsies. It went great. The doctor was so good and I was really impressed.

She got the spots she needed and told me right there they were benign. I asked for a sample to go to pathology just to double check, but I felt good about it. I could watch the needle go into the spots right on the ultrasound monitor. It was very 'interesting' if it weren't happening to me!!

Anyhow, the great news is that behind those cysts, they found nothing. The nodules that looked solid melted away. There are no guarantees on anything, but this is much better than it could have been.

I still need excisional surgery and that will happen hopefully soon. But we did catch a break today amidst all the chaos. Nice.

 

[soocool]

Beacon, that is such great news! Now go out and celebrate and buy yourself something nice!

 

[KimberlyH]

Awesome news, Beacon! I''m so happy for you. I agree, go out and celebrate.

 

[purrfectpear]

Fabulous news. I''ve been thinking of you and I''m so glad to hear this!!!

 

[Linda W]

OH Beacon, I am so happy to hear this honey. A BIG sigh of relief for you.!!!!!!!!!


Love, Linda

 

[Kaleigh]

Oh Beacon this is wonderful news!! I have been thinking of you!!!

 

[mrssalvo]

Beacon, that is just wonderful news. you do deserve a celebration!!

 

[iheartscience]

That's great news, Beacon! I hope everything continues to go well!

 

[rainwood]

I am so happy for you, Beacon! That''s such good news!

 

[Mara]

Great news Beacon!! I am so happy to hear this for you. What a relief. Hope the surgery goes easily and as painless as possible for you.

 

[VRBeauty]

WHEW! And

Thank you for letting us know.

 

[Camille]

Wonderful News!

 

[MichelleCarmen]

Beacon, so glad your news is good!

 

[snlee]

Beacon, I have been thinking of you. That''s wonderful news! What a relief!

 

[puffy]

that is wonderful news!!

 

[jcrow]

such good news! yay!

 

[lyra]

Yay! Beacon, this is great news! I''m so happy for you. Take care.

 

[Phoenix]

Beacon,

I''m sooooo glad to hear this. What a relief! Hope that excisional surgery is as painless as possible and and everything will turn out fine.

Take care of yourself. Go and get yourself a nice treat. You deserve it after all the ups and downs.

Again, so happy for you!

 

[Madam Bijoux]

Wonderful news - that calls for something sparkly to celebrate!

 

[isaku5]

Wonderful news, Beacon!!!

The ''something sparkly'' that Madam is probably referring to is....a bottle of good champagne

 

[dianne]

Fantastic news!!

 

[risingsun]

Yes!! Some good news, at last

 

[Gailey]

Gailey does the happy dance.

Fantastic news Beacon, I''m over the moon for you!

 

[hlmr]

I''m so glad to hear your good news Beacon!!

 

[gemgirl]

That''s incredibly good news Beacon. Biopsies are really the only sure way to tell what it was. Now you can heave a huge sigh of relief. I''m very happy for you!

 

[Sabine]

So glad to hear it went well!

 

[Beacon]

Thanks everyone!

We are still at this and it''s not over. There can still be bad stuff. They are doiing a formal study of my old MRI and if they cannot make sense of it, we have to do a new MRI. Plus, the excision could show some bad stuff.

Who knew that finding cancer was so difficult? I used to think you either had breast cancer or you didn''t and it was just like that. Now I know that it is darned hard to figure it out sometimes.

This has been a remarkable journey so far and the PS fellowship has been unbelieveably helpful to me. I thank each one of you, from my heart.

Mary

 

[VRBeauty]

EGADS! to the ongoing saga. But... does it mean it can't be too far along (assuming it is cancer) if it's this difficult to identify?

BTW I had my first mammogram in... oh, three or four years?... this morning. Your experience pushed me out of complacency.

Thanks, I think.