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Happy New Year
Trying to recover after last chemo. It went quite well. Had a ‘quiet’ Christmas… I guess I’m not doing so much quiet after all this! During my last doctor’s appointment I had mentioned that I was worried about my other breast. We went back and forth discussing if there was or wasn’t something. I insisted on having a new ultrasound. And I got an appointment… Two days before new year’s. Arriving there I had to show what I was palpating. The nurse was eager to point out that I was doing it the wrong way. Well…my response wasn’t that nice. Though I started with the sentence ‘don’t mean to be…
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Day -8. Ignorance is a bliss
Just a week left before summer holidays. Part of taking care of myself included not ignoring things on my body. Starting with a breast lump. And today I had an appointment! ‘Triple diagnostics’ as my GP said. That means mammography, ultrasound and biopsy if necessary. Not having much experience as a patient I thought mammography was painful… poor thing! The doctor coming for the ultrasound almost laughed at me. ‘There’s nothing (pathological) on mammo. Let me palpate… I feel nothing!’ Well I’m probably exaggerating…young doctors always suspect worst case scenario. Moreover I had recently come across cases regarding women my age with breast cancer. [Not working with cancer myself, and…