The reports, paperwork, and various other things that suck to read:

Over the course of cancer diagnosis and treatment you get a lot of things in writing... lab reports, treatment directions, things that are meant to be supportive that aren't, things that aren't meant to be supportive but somehow make you feel better.  A lot of these things either won't make sense to you (a lot of them didn't make sense to me) or aren't that important, but I'm going to stick them here anyway (click the thumbnail images to view a more readable size).  Somewhere somebody might benefit by looking at what you get to read when you're diagnosed with cancer...

My first appointment before the cancer diagnosis...

The appointment that started it all: this is the appointment I made with my rheumatologist when I first discovered a lump in my breast.  The appointment that started my whole day of "no, that's not good, that doesn't look good, you should be worried" instead of the usual "I'm not a doctor, I can't really tell you what the test results are".
My initial mammogram and biopsy reports...

These are the findings after my mammogram, which happened the same day.  It kind of went...

"So, I have this lump... can you look at it?"

"That's not good... you need a mammogram right away."

"That's not good... you need an ultrasound right away."

"That's not good... you need a biopsy right away."

And then some horrible, horrible waiting.
Results of the initial needle biopsy... These are the results of the initial needle biopsy... if I recall correctly three different samples were taken.  The process wasn't actually painful, but it was certainly very stressful.  That whole first week was a lot of waiting for results.  Le sigh.
Bone scan used to determine whether the cancer had spread...

This is the bone scan they performed at the end of the first week in an attempt to determine whether or not the cancer had spread to other parts of my body.

Obviously this isn't all of the paperwork I've received so far, but I haven't exactly felt like a rock star lately and it's been a lot of work to go through everything and make it presentable.  Also I may have been busy swashbuckling and wizarding and stuff in pretend video game realms.  I'll try to get some of the more interesting lab results up as soon as possible, but in the meantime there ought to be enough here to keep you busy for a while...