On April 6th I was relaxing in bed, tossing and turning, all the while fighting with the cami night top I was wearing. You know what I'm talking about, you roll over and all the goods fall out and it's quite uncomfortable...so I was adjusting to get myself all tucked back in when I felt a lump against my rib under my left arm, boob-ish area. After digging and pulling at it for a while I called Kim on her phone, who was in bed across the hall, she wasn't sleeping yet either :) I yelled for her a couple times but she must not have heard me. I was afraid that if I got up to show it to her, I wouldn't be able to find it again. She came in, felt it and agreed that I should probably have it looked at- mainly because it didn't hurt at all, which I had heard was not good. Being past due on my annual exam, I thought it wouldn't hurt for me to go see the doc.
When I called the doctor's office the next day, I wasn't able to get an appt until 4-20, which was 2 weeks away. That day came and went and I needed to reschedule my appt for that Friday.
I hadn't told the nurse when I made the appointment that I had felt the lump, I really didn't think it was a big deal. During the exam with Dr. J I mentioned to him that I had felt this lump about two weeks prior and it hadn't changed at all, and it didn't hurt. He thought it was a good idea for me to have a mammogram, but then changed his mind that an ultrasound would give a better idea of what it was, being dense breast tissue doesn't mammogram well. I kept waiting for the punch in the shoulder "It will be ok kid, nothing to worry about". So I was scheduled to come in to the hospital for an ultrasound on Monday. I left, still thining nothing of it and ran to get a few groceries when Dr J's office was calling- the radiologist decided they wanted to do a mammogram anyway, so I explained what Dr. J had mentioned that a mammogram wouldn't show much and that the ultrasound would be better- so they were gonna do what they wanted to do anyway. Sure, I'll have both I suppose!
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