Mini Update On Me (just call me walking trainwreck)..... -- RAVENBEAUTY'S ALL-STAR RADIO!

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Date Posted: 04:47:49 03/14/12 Wed
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Ravenbeauty
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Mini Update On Me (just call me walking trainwreck).....

From my Facebook wall (I am truly sorry to all of you who are waiting in my friend queue over there). I am hoping Facebook makes a change to their policy so that I can approve you. Please know that I am not snubbing you intentionally. I am at the 5000 mark now (their friend limit) and have almost 460 of you now just sitting there in my queue. They keep letting these requests go through knowing that I can't make much room. In any event, onto what's most important right now.....

From my Facebook:

Guys,

I've just been too upset to even think straight today. I just got back from the breast surgeon's office (mine is on maternity leave, but her partner saw me). She found this one area that the plastic surgeon didn't even bother to biopsy on March 7 very suspicious. She took a chunk of it today (more stitches). She was surprised that the plastic surgeon did not bother to take it. Then in the middle of my appointment with her, the results came back from the scalp lesion and one of the area's underneath the main incision that was biopsied by the plastic surgeon on March 7 (same healthcare system-shared computer results). The lab is recommending that I have a much deeper biopsy done on the area where the scalp lesion was (can't believe I have to go through all that painful crap again with more stitches to my head because they should have taken a larger chunk the first time around). Really angry. They are calling it a Spindle Cell Neoplasm (characteristic of Angiosarcoma).

My doctor is requesting more stains on the sample that they already have now, and a new date has been set up to go back in and take a larger chunk (hopefully all) to get more details on it (they said the margins were not clear). I am so confused and exhausted from all of this that words are not adequate. When they said Spindle Cell Neoplasm, I felt sick to my stomach. Finding it harder and harder to smile and shrug this stuff off. I am back to waiting on pins and needles again to get the results of the red, raised, area underneath a part of my incision that the plastic surgeon did not even bother taking when I was there. The breast surgeon took that today. Hoping I will get something back by Friday because another weekend of waiting for results is going to make me crazy. I am so sorry that I haven't caught up out here, but I'm just not feeling it right now. I am incredibly grateful to you for your concern and notes of love and support. Just really angry right now. I will keep you posted. ♥

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[> Re: Mini Update On Me (just call me walking trainwreck)..... -- Johnny B., 05:30:02 03/14/12 Wed [1]

Raven, we are all pulling for you. Please don't apologize for not updating, we are more concerned for your health than some trivial update. In the grand scheme of things, you are all that matters. Please take comfort knowing that we care about you and want you to get better.