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((((((((((((((HUGS)))))))))) and every positive, encouraging, upbuilding, healthy , calming thought to you, sweet Eil!
Chen♥

in my thoughts and prayers - and also sending you all my positive energy - feel all our love around you. (I still have one and I worry about that as well) Try to relax this weekend!
much love,
Jenny

I can't even imagine that heart-stopping moment, but know you've got all the support and love we can send to you as you deal with this.

It's especially hard to focus on a different outcome when the circumstances repeat themselves so eerily. But you've made a great start!

Prayers, hugs, and lots of good thoughts to you and for you

Angela

Sending all kinds of positive vibes your way and send a prayer that all will be fine and you will get that great sigh of relief we all wish we could've had the FIRST time around. I wanted to have a double mastectomy but the surgeon talked me out of it. He said there was only a 2% chance I could get it in the 2nd with it not being hereditary. I guess a 2% chance is a chance in and of itself. But heck, there are women that get a recurrence even with a mastectomy, so I guess there's just no sure guard against it. I truly hope you don't have to have a repeat because no one wants to go through it the first time, never mind a 2nd! Please post & let us know the results as soon as you can!

With lots of hugs ~ Mar

So sorry you have to have this worry. Positive thoughts headed your way and hugs. Hoping it's benign.

Dear Eileen,

I hope everything ends up okay. It's like that old Tom Petty song, "The Waiting is the Hardest Part." I hate waiting for results. I'm glad he got to do the biopsy right then and there. At least things are moving quickly . . . I'm praying that they're moving right to the Big O.K.!!

I taught in a Quaker school for a long time. The Quakers have this "thing." When someone is going through a tough time, they "hold you in the light." It's a lovely image, I think . . . your friends holding you up to the a place where there is light and peace.

I'm holding you in the light.

Hugs,
Linda

Eileen I pray thats what you hear on Monday. Prayer being said as I write. Please let us know as soon as you can.

So sorry this is happening, but chances are that it is benign. Doesn't help with the waiting and worrying though. Sending you lots of good thoughts. I'll be thinking about you this weekend.

Mimi

you will be in my thoughts and prayer!! Hugs, Diane

Eileen, here is a little prayer I thought you may like to have. You will be in my prayers!

Circle me, Lord.
Keep protection near
And danger afar.

oh i know this fear .. i was told i could have cancer all over my body and had to waith 5 days for the scan to come back.. what a time i had.. but it wasnt ,just in my breast and nodes. I pray for you to have peace that only our lord can give us .. may the report go well with you as we all ask for that.

I can't even imagine the stress and thoughts that are going through your head. You're right, don't jump the gun. BUT we all know that is easier said than done!!! God be with you!

You're in my prayers!!!
Rita

I read the title of your post with a heavy heart. All of us here fear that visit. The one where we leave the doctor's office needing more tests, having to endure more waiting and the awful anxiety of the unknown.

I am glad, at least, that all the testing could be done at once and that you will get the results soon. The image of holding you in the light resonates in me. I am holding you in that light, Eileen.

xoxoxoxo Lynn

Positive prayers are beaming your way. I know that nothing will keep you from worrying about this, but try to let it go. If it isn't a cancer you will have wasted all that worry for nothing and if (and I hope it isn't) it is cancer days of worrying right now won't change that one bit. Go out to dinner with that good looking fellow of yours and see a movie, or do some shopping and try to find some peace. We will be here for you no matter what it is.
Stef

I was walking in my town tonight, and in the window of a shop was a bumper sticker that read: "Pray, Hope, and Don't Worry" -- St. Pio

Sending lots of prayer and hugs your way. Looking forward to a good report on Monday.

Eileen, sending lots of prayers your way. Monday must seem so far away. Thinking of you.

Karen

Try to focus on the things you can actually affect and let the rest just come as it will... I am sending you the best possible good vibes and keeping my fingers and legs crossed that everything is benign... good luck Eil! Sincerely, Pitt

Eileen,

You got it - I have, and will continue to pray for you. I hope everything works out well and you get good news on Monday.

Yes, it is always something. That's one thing about bc - life is never boring or "normal" anymore.

Take care and keep us posted.

Wolfi

Thinking about you and hoping for good news.

I haven't checked to see if you have found out by now, but I'm hoping for you that it's nothing!!!!!!!!!!

I can't answer you about the Tamoxifen...I have my own suspicions....and I will faithfully take it for 5 years, but then strongly resist taking anything else after that...

Please, please keep us posted.

But, remember, you emerged victorious once, so if you must do battle again, it will be MUCH easier to slay the beast...you have the edge!!!

Hugs, Kathi

And a big cyber hug too. (((((((((((((((Eil)))))))))))))))))) My brother-in-law once told me, "If you can't change it don't worry worry about it". Easier said than done but sometimes it makes me stop and think. Wishing you the best tomorrow.

Jadie

It's just one thing after another. Positive energy coming your way.

Maureen

Hey you are right not to jump the gun. When I had my mris of both breasts when my cancer was diagnosed in april, they saw a suspicious area on the left side which ended up being nothing at all. I ended up with a bilateral mastectomy anyway for my own peace of mind but it goes to show that they are just really careful with us breast cancer survivors...

I will say a BIG prayer for you tonight that it turns out to be nothing at all!!

Hugs
Linda t

in the words of Roseann Roseannadana, "if it isn't one thing, it's another". But I am sure your "shadows" are just that. I did that on my first "after surgery" tests too, they kept taking more and more pictures because there was something there they couldnt identify. It is really just to be even more on the safe side than previously. Let us know when you get your results.
=^..^=

Thinking about you and praying for you too, Eileen!

Hey, Eileen.
I've been thinking about you all day. I hope your news was good, and that you're celebrating.
Peace.
Linda

I know exactly what you are going through! 6 years ago, I had invasive ductal cancer, diagnosed in Sept, Mastectomy on Oct 3. This Oct 6, I was diagnosed with infiltrating ductal bc and Mastectomy on Oct 19. Still waiting for pathology tests to come back. This doesn't mean the same will happen to you, but it is freaky. It was in my opposite breast.
Just remember, the waiting is the worst. This time it is even worse, because I know more about bc than the first time. Just know we are all thinking of you and praying for you. One day at a time, remember. take care.

I hope things went well for you on Monday. Waiting is very hard. Lots of thing go through your head, mostly needless. Prayers with you at this time.

I hope things went well yesterday. I was thinking of you last night and this morning. Please let us know when you can.

Mimi

I am saying a big prayer! Please let us know how you do. My first name is also Eileen (spelled the same too), so I am going to send you, my same name buddy, my 22 year survivor luck!