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@tallyteresa Welcome to Mayo Connect. We are a diverse group of patients/family members/caregivers, who share our strength and experiences with others along their journeys.
Wow, this latest twist on your path must really be hard on you, emotionally and physically. What have your medical team members and the social worker told you the timeline might be? Are they comfortable waiting for the length of time this might take? Is there an interim procedure that can be done?

Do you have a good support system around you with family and friends who care about you?How are you spending your days, right now?

Perhaps this brief delay will help you get more prepared for radiation and hormone suppressant therapy that follows the surgery.
Here is a link to the breast cancer group here on Mayo Connect. I hope you will be able to find some good information there, also.
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/group/breast-cancer/
If you are comfortable, I hope you will return and tell us more. We care here.
Ginger

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Thank you for responding and for providing info on the breast group. The biopsy and breast MRI seem to indicate that my cancer is small and non-invasive. Not the slowest growing, but also not the fastest, so in the best of all worlds, I will be fine. Unfortunately, I require neck surgery, too, which is also postponed due to the virus and has now been given 2nd priority after we deal with the breast issue. So I'm in a little discomfort which I'm hoping PT will help if they actually continue providing it and if I deign it wise to go if they do and risk exposure since Im considered high risk. The breast oncologist I had my heart set on caring for me is not accepting new patients due to the outbreak, I learned today. So I've reached out to my cancer specialist at Mayo who monitors a precursor condition for myeloma I have to see how y'all are handling surgeries and the newly diagnosed there now, but don't expect to hear back for a few days given the current load of calls and emails. I am ordinarily a crazy busy person out in the world, but will find pleasure in being home soon. Not feeling great and doing what I can to feel better right now. Monitoring my temp and symptoms to see if I should get tested and will not delay if this looks like it could be "it". Definitely in isolation to protect others just in case.