Waiting stretches in a way that outcomes do not. The last minute before news is when every possibility is still live at once, and holding all of them takes far more from you than the single reality that eventually turns up. Knowing tends to be survivable in a way that not knowing is not, even when the news is hard. That is not a promise about the answer, only about how time behaves around it.

While you are in the waiting part, keep your hands busy with something undemanding and let the day be small. Nobody thinks well inside that minute, and no decision made there needs making yet.