My left boob

So it all started weeks ago on May 2nd when I had a mammogram. I had already been to my doctor and showed her a very small bump (or knot) on my left breast which she said was only a fibrous cyst (or something like that) and not to worry about it. It was time for a mammogram though and so she sent me off to have one.

On May 10th, I get back a letter which I expect to say everything is fine, but it doesn't. It says I need "follow up study." Now I know that I shouldn't worry too much about that because I am fairly young, my family has no history of breast cancer and 9 out of 10 women called back in for that have nothing wrong with them. I know all that and yet I can't help worrying, even having nightmares. I am on the phone first thing that Monday trying to set up an appointment. Of course, there is a problem. The lady can't set up an appointment until they send her my file, which they haven't done. It takes all the way until Friday for them to send it to her. Finally on Monday I get an appointment for Wednesday.

It never occurred to me that the silly little cyst my doctor had so easily diagnosed was what they were concerned with. However, after getting to my appointment I found out that was exactly what it was. The mammogram lady said it was probably just a cyst and I told her my doctor had felt it and told me it was. She kind of rolled her eyes and said "she can tell that just by feeling it?" I don't want to be mean about the mammogram lady because she was mostly great, but I didn't need the faith in my doctor shaken at that particular moment.

To wrap this up, after a dozen mammograms and an ultra sound, they ended up telling me the exact same thing my doctor had told me after only 10 seconds.

Even after nearly two weeks of worry and having to do all the doctor stuff only to find out what my doctor told me months ago -- I am too relieved to complain very much.