I do know how it feels though, to discover the lump.
I found mine a few years ago in a most unglamorous way; one day I was scratching my left armpit. It makes me giggle a little, but that really is how I found it. It felt like a tiny, hard little pebble at the top of my breast. I kept picturing the scene in Finding Nemo when they clog the filter with aquarium gravel.
I was immediately terrified. I was only 25
and had two very small children. I had an appointment two days later for
my routine pap smear, so I waited to ask the doctor because I had
already lined up a babysitter that day. Waiting for that appointment was
horrible. I kept asking my husband to touch it to verify that it wasn’t
just my imagination. It was tender to the touch and most definitely
there. How could I not have noticed this before?
To read the rest of my story head over to Wendy's site.
Sorry you had to go through all that, especially at that age. I had a "scare" myself a while back. Like you with your aunt, it also shows up elsewhere in my family, and like you, I got one of those immediate phone calls. They probably think they're doing you a favor by not making you wait for results, but when you first realize whose calling and it's that fast, you automatically assume the worst.
ReplyDeleteIn my case, it turned out to be just some sort or calcification, but between all of the mammograms, ultrasound, follow-up appointments, and biopsy, my story turned into a comedy of errors that could easily be turned into a sit-com. I can look back at it now and laugh, but it could definitely have turned out differently. I'm very lucky to have come out of it with a lot of laughs, a titanium clip to mark the spot and one very sore tah tah at the time! ;) (#TALU)
That is always so scary. It happened to me too last year, but mine turned out to be just a cyst and they drained it. But the waiting is the hardest.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this story, Stephanie. Scary stuff! Visiting from the TALU.
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