Monday, November 27, 2006

Boob squisher!!

Okay this was not as bad as I thought it was going to be. The machine did not squish my boob to much, but it was still awkward having someone handling my breast like that. I had to wait about 20 minutes past my appt. time, but was the first one to be seen when they brought me back. They took two pictures of my left breast and then four 'normal' routine pictures, two on each side. Then I was sent back out to my little waiting "closet". Waiting and waiting. About 10 minutes later, the mammogram tech. lady came and said that the doctor wanted more pictures of my right breast, 'to have something to compare it to'. (uh-huh?) So a couple more squishes and then back to my closet. Then she came back a few minutes later and said that the Radiologist definitely wanted to do an ultrasound. ( okay freaking a bit). So I waited about 30 more minutes and then the lady doing the u/s came back and got me, and was at first, I guess, expecting someone older, b/c she double checked the chart and asked if I was Trina. So she brought me back to this room and had me lay on this table/bed like thing and did my right breast first. I saw some black spots and tried to remember ( white good, black bad or black good, white bad? Fuck!) But then she told me that there was a cluster of cysts right there. (okay?) She took like forever on my right breast and then like only did the ultrasound in the area that I felt the lump. ( I was not to happy with that) She quickly jumped up and said " Okay let me go and show my pictures to the doctor and I will be right back". She returned shortly with the doctor and he told me that the lump that I am feeling in my left breast could be just a mass of breast tissue and that I should just watch it the next 6 months and then come back for another mammogram to see if it has changed or what not. ( I don't feel right with that either) But in my right breast, he was concerned about the cluster of cysts. He said that normally when they find a cyst, it is by itself, but these were a tight cluster and they saw them in the mammogram too. He gave me two options, to wait six months and come back for another mammogram or have a biopsy done. Considering my family history , I opted for the biopsy. I would not want to be wondering about this for the next six months, like I am going to be wondering about the "tissue mass". I don't know why he is concerned about this cluster, but I guess I will find out soon?

well that is all I know for now. My sister, in about an hour, is going to be finding out how many buns are in her oven. I am hoping for twins, but will be happy with just one. I am just happy to finally "officially" be an aunt!!! and we will know shortly.

1 comment:

seattlegal said...

Glad the mammogram wasn't too bad. Sorry that you have to have a biopsy done though. Hopefully, it is nothing at all.

I'd be concerned about the tissue mass too, but I suppose this doctor does have training in this so he/she knows what to look for.

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