What a day.
DH came with me today we had several meetings and I had a breast MRI with contrast -- they let DH in the MRI room with me to rub my legs during this :) I'm blessed beyond words to have the best DH in the world...he asked all the right questions, as after a while I couldn't think of any because of information overload...and he took all the notes.
Given I am terribly claustrophobic, they were kind enough to give me a sedative for the MRI. It made we wonderfully lethargic, given I had gotten quite anxious as the day went on -- and I don't recall the ride home or going up to bed - where I promptly laid down and slept for 4 hours.
The MRI will show whether the cancer has spread into any lymph nodes (please say a prayer that it hasn't). If they call with the results tomorrow I may decide not to let them tell me and wait to hear what those until my next appointment on Tuesday and can get the results then.
After all I can't do anything about it until then, and DH and I want to go out of town for a long weekend (it has been planned for a while and rescheduled when I had to have the biopsy) so this may be the last little get-away the two of us have for a while.
Long story short, this was detected early (thank God), it's the most common type of breast cancer (thank God), it's very small (thank God)
- I never felt it and even the nurse in the breast imaging dept. couldn't feel it -- and it is the type that responds well to hormone treatment (thank God).
I sincerely thank all of you for your prayers, kind words, suggestions, and healing thoughts over the last few days. They have helped more than I can say. Bless you all.
-Irene