Worrisome News

Last week my mum called me saying she felt a lump on her left breast (mastectomy was on the right side)... she is very worried....... me too...

She has a mammogram appt on 29th this month at NCC... but feeling anxious.. we went to see her medical oncologist Dr Khoo at Gleaneagles the next day which was last friday...

After examining her.... Dr Khoo says he dint feel any lump in specific... but its good to have a mammo and ultrasound done since the last was quite some time ago at TTSH. But since we already have the appt on 29th.. we can wait till that time.... but I do not want my mum to go thru another 3 weeks of waiting... so we went ahead to do the mammo and ultrasound that very same day at gleaneagles...

We were at the gleaneagles at around 1130am... we are still there at 5plus waiting for the xray and ultrasound films to see Dr Khoo again... The xray dept call my mum to do another time of ultrasound as the first one is non conclusive... It make me worry.... why....

Finally we are back to Dr Khoo office with the films...

The mammo shows nothing... but the ultrasound found two small lumps.. Dr Khoo says althou the lumps do not seems to have the cancer characteristics features but during the early stage all lumps look the same.... so its good to have a biopsy test done on the lumps to rule out cancer.... so he suggested to go back to NCC Dr Koong who did my mum chestwall resection surgery to have the biopsy since it will be much cheaper.... as pathology report cost at private hosp can be quite substantial...

I called NCC up to bring forward our appt with Dr Koong to last tuesday....

Dr Koong says he need to see my mum previous ultrasound reports to compare.... if the lumps are already there before it shouldnt be of a concern... if it isnt... its good to go for the biopsy... or go for surgery to remove the lump altogether... but Dr Koong says he do not want my mum to go thru another unnecessary op again since she already had so much the past few months....so got to wait for TTSH to send our their reports to NCC....

Got a call from NCC saying that TTSH ultrasound films has reached and Dr Koong has compared but is still not conclusive... he wants my mum to do another ultrasound again next tues.... hmm... it will be the 3rd ultrasound in 2 weeks.... I wonder why.... maybe becos my mum remove benign lumps before so there are scar tissue shown up during ultrasound....

I really really really hope the lumps are nothing.... its not cancer.... I abit tired of all these worrying....having to go thru anxiety everytime waiting for report results.... really...