slnewmanpt
Cathlete
Fisrt and foremost, I would like to thank ALL of you for keeping me in your prayers and thoughts. You have been such a great support system.
Ok, well, this is kind of long and drawn out but here goes. If you guys remember, I posted about my breast biopsy results. A week after the surgery my husband took me into my surgeon and she wasn't in when I arrived for my appt. Her medical assistant told me that my dr. would call me in a week or so. I was kind of taken aback since the drs. office didn't even call and tell us not to come in. I asked her if I could at least have the results of the biopsy then and she said she'd call my dr. and see. My husband and I left the office and the mecical assistant called me on my cell phone and told me my surgeon said I could call the pathologist directly. I thought that was kind of strange that a dr. would say that, but I called him anyway. I told him who I was and he thought it was odd she would have me call since he hadn't even talked to her. I guess he believed me because I'm sure he wouldn't assume I just knew how to get ahold of him. Anyway, he proceeded to tell me what he thought. He said they found 3 or 4 ducts with atypical cells. He said it was contained in the ducts, but that all of the pathologists sat down and had a meeting and the consensus was that it was intracuctal carcinoma. He said they all decided to send the sample to the Mayo clinic and have them test it further. This all happened on a Thurs. By the following Monday I still hadn't heard from my surgeon. Tuesday afternoon the phone rang and it
was my pathologist. He said he called me because he could not
get a hold of my surgeon!:-wow He then told me he had gotten
the results back from the Mayo clinic and they DID not think it
was malignant. He told me it was a condition called atypical
intraductal hyperplasia. I wanted to jump through the phone
line and hug him!!! He told me that my surgeon needed to make
sure she had gotten everything out and then that she needed to
watch it closely as it could be pre-cancerous. Before hanging
up he asked me not to tell her he had called me, but he felt he
had to because he had never spoken with her!:-mad
Friday morning the phone rings and it's the surgeon's med asst. She told me my results were benign. I asked her if there was anything else on the report and she said, no everything is fine. I asked her when she got the report and the told me she had just received it. The pathologist told me he faxed it on Tues. right before he talked to me. I said, ok, shouldn't I see and talk to my surgeon? She hasn't even talked to me once or seen my incision since the surgery. The med asst replied by telling me that the dr. was going out of town and I couldn't get in until Jan 3!!!! I had the biopsy on Dec. 5th!!!!
I have never experienced anything quite like this in my life. I was overjoyed the news was good, but appalled at my dr. I have an appt with my PCP tomorrow and I'm going to let him know what's going on and tell him I want to see another surgeon.
Whew!!!! I am SO sorry this is so long but I wanted to let all of you know what was going on. It's been harrowing to say the least. Thank you all again for thinking of me!!! Merry Christmas to all my cyber buds!! Now I can think about the Intensity Series again!!!:-jumpy :-jumpy :-jumpy
Sherry
Ok, well, this is kind of long and drawn out but here goes. If you guys remember, I posted about my breast biopsy results. A week after the surgery my husband took me into my surgeon and she wasn't in when I arrived for my appt. Her medical assistant told me that my dr. would call me in a week or so. I was kind of taken aback since the drs. office didn't even call and tell us not to come in. I asked her if I could at least have the results of the biopsy then and she said she'd call my dr. and see. My husband and I left the office and the mecical assistant called me on my cell phone and told me my surgeon said I could call the pathologist directly. I thought that was kind of strange that a dr. would say that, but I called him anyway. I told him who I was and he thought it was odd she would have me call since he hadn't even talked to her. I guess he believed me because I'm sure he wouldn't assume I just knew how to get ahold of him. Anyway, he proceeded to tell me what he thought. He said they found 3 or 4 ducts with atypical cells. He said it was contained in the ducts, but that all of the pathologists sat down and had a meeting and the consensus was that it was intracuctal carcinoma. He said they all decided to send the sample to the Mayo clinic and have them test it further. This all happened on a Thurs. By the following Monday I still hadn't heard from my surgeon. Tuesday afternoon the phone rang and it
was my pathologist. He said he called me because he could not
get a hold of my surgeon!:-wow He then told me he had gotten
the results back from the Mayo clinic and they DID not think it
was malignant. He told me it was a condition called atypical
intraductal hyperplasia. I wanted to jump through the phone
line and hug him!!! He told me that my surgeon needed to make
sure she had gotten everything out and then that she needed to
watch it closely as it could be pre-cancerous. Before hanging
up he asked me not to tell her he had called me, but he felt he
had to because he had never spoken with her!:-mad
Friday morning the phone rings and it's the surgeon's med asst. She told me my results were benign. I asked her if there was anything else on the report and she said, no everything is fine. I asked her when she got the report and the told me she had just received it. The pathologist told me he faxed it on Tues. right before he talked to me. I said, ok, shouldn't I see and talk to my surgeon? She hasn't even talked to me once or seen my incision since the surgery. The med asst replied by telling me that the dr. was going out of town and I couldn't get in until Jan 3!!!! I had the biopsy on Dec. 5th!!!!
I have never experienced anything quite like this in my life. I was overjoyed the news was good, but appalled at my dr. I have an appt with my PCP tomorrow and I'm going to let him know what's going on and tell him I want to see another surgeon.
Whew!!!! I am SO sorry this is so long but I wanted to let all of you know what was going on. It's been harrowing to say the least. Thank you all again for thinking of me!!! Merry Christmas to all my cyber buds!! Now I can think about the Intensity Series again!!!:-jumpy :-jumpy :-jumpy
Sherry
