PSA
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Ladies: FEEL YOUR GODDAMN BOOBIES.
I feel like I need to talk about this to prove that you should always be aware of this sort of thing, and coming from a family that is very aware of breast cancer, I have no problems talking about breasts and medical shit that goes with them. So boys, if this will freak you out, stop reading here.
It's pretty appropriate that the first day of Breast Cancer Awareness month started my first breast cancer scare. Found something that definitely does not belong in a breast. Told myself it was nothing, until I found myself looking up breast cancer survival rates of 20 year olds, and realized I needed to tell someone. Didn't start really freaking out until my mom did, and when someone who's had breast cancer twice doesn't write this off, it's a good sign you need to get checked. So thanks to the wonderful doctors at RI Hospital, I got in first thing Friday morning for a bunch of different checks and such. Apparently this thing is 1.5 inches, which is pretty gigantic by their standards, so I was convinced I'd be getting a death sentence. But, thankfully, much poking and prodding and oh my God a needle in my boob later, I find out it's benign.
I do need surgery eventually, but as for right now, I feel like I'm seeing the world in a much better light. I am extremely sore, but I'm not dying of cancer. I cried so much just walking out of the hospital and seeing how beautiful it was that day, because I knew that I'd (hopefully) get to see so many more beautiful days and not be seeing them from inside a cancer ward. It may sound like an overreaction, but the size of this thing coupled with both my family history and the pretty dismal survival rates of young people with cancer, I was unbelievably terrified. But all's well, and I have flowers and chocolate and hugs to prove it.
Even though it's benign, my mom had something similar that doctor's told her not to worry about, but ended up hiding a pretty large tumor. So always err on the side of caution with these things, and please please PLEASE be aware of your own health.
I feel like I need to talk about this to prove that you should always be aware of this sort of thing, and coming from a family that is very aware of breast cancer, I have no problems talking about breasts and medical shit that goes with them. So boys, if this will freak you out, stop reading here.
It's pretty appropriate that the first day of Breast Cancer Awareness month started my first breast cancer scare. Found something that definitely does not belong in a breast. Told myself it was nothing, until I found myself looking up breast cancer survival rates of 20 year olds, and realized I needed to tell someone. Didn't start really freaking out until my mom did, and when someone who's had breast cancer twice doesn't write this off, it's a good sign you need to get checked. So thanks to the wonderful doctors at RI Hospital, I got in first thing Friday morning for a bunch of different checks and such. Apparently this thing is 1.5 inches, which is pretty gigantic by their standards, so I was convinced I'd be getting a death sentence. But, thankfully, much poking and prodding and oh my God a needle in my boob later, I find out it's benign.
I do need surgery eventually, but as for right now, I feel like I'm seeing the world in a much better light. I am extremely sore, but I'm not dying of cancer. I cried so much just walking out of the hospital and seeing how beautiful it was that day, because I knew that I'd (hopefully) get to see so many more beautiful days and not be seeing them from inside a cancer ward. It may sound like an overreaction, but the size of this thing coupled with both my family history and the pretty dismal survival rates of young people with cancer, I was unbelievably terrified. But all's well, and I have flowers and chocolate and hugs to prove it.
Even though it's benign, my mom had something similar that doctor's told her not to worry about, but ended up hiding a pretty large tumor. So always err on the side of caution with these things, and please please PLEASE be aware of your own health.