Any diagnosed germophobes or hoarders on this forum?

@NatureLover 🤗💕

Thanks for popping in with some care, @Bow ❤️

Checking on you and sending you love, lots more sunshine and bugs dear @NatureLover 🌄🌄🌄🐛🐞🐛🐞 oh and great coffee ☕☕☕☕

Great to see you here, dear @Anastasia ! Thanks so much for popping in ❤️ with bugs 🐛🐜 and ☕ and 🌞!

You've brought the sunshine with you, as I saw this morning on the local weather forecast a little part-sun on the next 7 days!! Amazing.

I've been wondering how things are going with your boy, with your mum, and your new business? Also how your sleep's going?

Sending lots of 💚 and care back...

@Former-Member you wrote this on the Pride Month Topic Tuesday thread:

"And also, when you meet a trans person, please respect their privacy and don’t ask them about their transition."

Thanks so much for this, as I would have thought it would show interest and affirmation to ask. But of course, it's their private business.

(I'm posting this on "my" thread as the Topic Tuesday thread is locked)

I'm not doing so well. I got some calls yesterday at work which I missed...I only got them after 5. I've been called back to Breastscreen tomorrow at 9am for half a day of tests, due to something wrong in my recent mammogram. It's at a hospital so I'm freaking out about germs. Apparently they will be able to tell me tomorrow after the tests if I have breast cancer, although the biopsy results take a week I think.

@Eve7 @Emelia8 @Bow

Oh @NatureLover I’m so sorry you are faced with this uncertainty and all the fear that goes along with it. Thinking of you and will be praying for you 💕

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Thank you so much, dear @Bow ❤️

Sorry to hear that @NatureLover . As you know, I have been through exactly that myself, less than 2 years ago. I was told that only a very small percentage of people who are called back for further testing actually have breast cancer. So the odds are against you having cancer. However as I, and many others who have a breast cancer diagnosis every year, know there are an unfortunate few who do have breast cancer. And these days, the very important thing to remember is that it is almost always caught in its early stages, before it spreads. That means treatment is very very effective.

I'm glad that you are in for the necessary tests so quickly, less time to worry. And the sooner you are cleared the better. On the unlikely chance that it is cancer, then the sooner its treated the better the outcome.

Your concerns over germaphobia at the hospital I think should be the lesser evil right now, so please try your best to see past that. It will soon be over. I have my fingers and toes crossed that all is okay and that whatever it is that is showing up on your mammogram, is benign.

Thinking of you tomorrow, as I know its a really stressful time. As for what they will likely do ... they will probably redo the mammogram, in a more detailed fashion. Then if the area of concern is still there, they will do an ultrasound to try to clarify matters. Those results will be known on the day by the Dr on duty. If they are unable to definitely rule out cancer, to be on the safe side, they will order a needle biopsy of any lump. And yes, that will likely take a week or so for results to come back.

A worrying time, because if it gets to the biopsy stage then they do suspect cancer. The biopsy is used to confirm their suspicion and to provide a grading and staging of the cancer for further treatment decisions. Although it is not definitive until those results come back, I knew by the end of the day that I had cancer. They just didn't actually say so. My Mum had died of breast cancer only a year prior, and I knew in my heart that the biopsy would confirm a cancer diagnosis. It was just a matter of finding out how bad it was.

Anyway ... you @NatureLover will be one of the 90% of women, who needed further assessment after initial screening, who do NOT have breast cancer. 🙏

Emelia 🤗💞