by Carolyn Thomas   ❤️   Heart Sisters (on Blue Sky)

 About a week ago, in the shower, I felt a lump in my right breast.

Coincidentally, I’d already had a similar experience decades earlier in my mid-30s (a lump – same breast, same spot – also discovered while showering). The lump was surgically removed under general anaesthesia – a procedure called at the time a quadrant resection.  I was a wreck back then. I was worried sick. I felt so frightened. I cried. A lot!  Luckily, the final pathology report at the time described that lump as a “benign mass” (meaning: non-cancerous).

All that stressful pre-op worry – over a benign mass.      Continue reading “Waiting, worrying and medical test results. . .” →