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So it started over a year before I did something about ‘it’. I was getting ready in the morning, and looked at my boob in the mirror and wondered how I got a bruise on my right breast. I felt it, and it was sore. It also felt like it was a small piece of rope in there, not a lump. I have had dense breasts all my life and even had to have an ultrasound one year, as they were not sure what they ‘saw’ in the mammogram. Well, there is no cancer in my family, just heart disease, so what was there to worry about? A couple weeks go by, the bruise and the rope-like lumpy thing went away.

I was due for my annual mammogram, didn’t say anything looked or felt amiss. I figured lets just see what the mammogram shows! Smart, huh? Well, in the end, not really. I didn’t do anything about checking it out further, but keep my eye on when it would show up and when it would disappear.

In the meantime, my friend, and dentist whose breast cancer was in remission, sadly  moved to her bones. Thus began her long battle to rid the bone/breast cancer. I became involved in her last 4 months of life, going to every doctors appointment; asking those nurse type questions; being that other set of ears. After her death in May, I finally decided to see my NP (nurse practitioner) and check out my ‘funny boob bruise’. Now we are really taking  the time for diagnosis!

She said there appeared to be something in there. She order the mammogram. I went next to a breast cancer surgeon, who determined in addition to the mammogram, to do the ultrasound. More reasons now to be scared? Still, no cancer in my family. Again, it didn’t ‘act’ like a lump…

Next installment: The office visit with the Surgical oncologist

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Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 / Breast Cancer, Cancer, Chemo, HERZ positive, Lumpectomy, Radiation.
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