Had a follow up exam with the Infirmary yesterday - digital mammography - 6 month checkup. I'd been diagnosed with microcalcifications in my left breast. Gads. Nothing major, the radiologist told me that it was benign, but they'd wanted to see me in 6 months to make sure they'd not grown or changed. Good deal. Better safe than sorry and whatnot.
I disrobed from the waist up and waited to be squished in their machine. It's really not that bad, although images of Brandon peering out the drivers window of my car while backing over my boobs as I lie down on the floor of the garage crossed my mind for a micro-second. hah!
The gal came in and did her thing on both sides and the magnification on my left as that was the offender in this matter. She told me to wait back in the little dressing room while the doctor looked at the images before dressing. So I waited, read through a magazine...waited some more. Hrm. No one was in the waiting room when I came in, this sure is taking a lot longer than usual I thought.
She finally popped into the room and said alright, your left breast has not changed at all, microcalcifications are the same.....I said buuuuuut? She said yeah there's a "but" here. BUT, your RIGHT breast has what looks like a cyst and he wants to do an ultrasound while you're here instead of having you come back for another appointment. Is that okay with you?
Hrm, do I have a choice? Why sure, that's fine....so per her suggestion, I got dressed and went back out to the waiting room to wait for the ultrasound.
About 40 minutes later or so, another techy type person came to guide me into a different room. I disrobed and covered with the towel they gave me. She and another girl came in and did their thing. Took about 5 minutes or so and they left the images up on the screen. I saw what looked like an elongated egg on the image and a marker in a diagram showing exactly where in the tissue this "thing" was. Neat.
The two came back and said well the doctor wants us to look at something else....ooookay. They scan some more in a different area and go with those images to the doctor. They were gone for about 5 minutes and when the gal who was performing the ultrasound came back in, she had what I presumed was the doctor with her.
I said well...this doesn't look good.
He said no it's not bad, it's different. You're in here today for checking on your microcalcifications which have formed in the working part of your breast, far up in your milk ducts. However, today we're seeing something else doing on in your right breast, some cysts. They're harmless and you have fibrocystic changes in both breasts. Yay? He said that anyone looking at my boobs would think I had cancer. WTF??? I was like uh....oh?? He said but you DON'T! I do need to see you again in 6 months though.
That I can do.
I wrapped up my sore "girls" and went on with my day...
I admit I do have some misgivings and worries. Like how WEIRD it is that one boob can be doing one thing and the other something entirely different. A friend once observed, you seem to have the worst benign conditions I've heard.....I tend to agree.....
