The latest ultrasound

This morning, I had to go over to the Cancer Center at the hospital for a follow-up ultrasound based on the MRI findings.   The MRI noted the following items:

• Right side
• 1.9cm mass at 6-7:00 - previously biopsied, known to be cancer.  This is the lump I found.
• 1.4cm mass at 7:00 - previously biopsied, known to be cancer.  
• 8mm mass at 5:00 - previously biopsied, known to be cancer.  
• 9mm mass at 9:00 - previously biopsied, not cancer.  
• 6mm nodule at 3:00 - new and looks like cancer.
• Left side
• 7mm nodule at 9:00 - new
• 6mm nodule at 3:00 - new
• 5mm nodule at 6:00 - new

(And just to clarify, "new" means items that showed up on last Tuesday's MRI that were not seen on my original mammogram and ultrasound on January 14.)

The ultrasound today was to look at the 4 new items.   The technician could not find any of them, which is not surprising since a 1cm mass is the size of a peanut.    I saw the radiologist and her thoughts were:

• Do nothing about the nodule in the right breast since I have to have a mastectomy anyway.
• Do an MRI biopsy of the nodules on the left side.   I asked her if this was necessary in the event I have a double mastectomy.   She asked who my surgeon was and upon telling her that, she thinks Dr. LG won't want it biopsied.  They'll just look at it after surgery.   I'll discuss with Dr. LG later this week.

Overall, I kind of feel like this was a waste of time and maybe I should have waited to talk to Dr. LG before scheduling it but what's done is done!

On tap for later this week (Thursday) are appointments with the breast surgeon and an oncologist.

We shared my diagnosis with our 5-year-old sone yesterday and he took it pretty well in that he really does not get what all this means and his biggest concern was whether or not I could still be the referee for his soccer game in the basement with Daddy yesterday afternoon.  ;)    He was very cute for the rest of the day and seemed to be taking extra special care of me.    He asked if he could tell his 2-year-old sister about my limitations after my hospital stay, to which I replied "Yes."   He went up to her and said something like, "Mommy won't be able to pick you up after she goes to the hospital, okay?"    He is such a good little boy!