Biopsy- May 30/ Results- June 4- A Century !!

How five days can seem like a century!! I got the biopsy on Wednesday, May 30 at  the Jefferson-Honickman Breast Imaging Center. A very pregnant Dr. Whittaker, fellow in Radiology did the procedure. I watched the whole thing on the ultrasound as she put the needle into my breast and saw the shadow magnified greatly. The image was not always clear, it squished around a lot, she explained, as breast tissue does. Once the Lidocaine got in and numbed the area, all I felt was pressure. When the biopsy was happening, I felt the humming as the needle shook and snipped off the specimen. That was weird!!

The medicine made me feel sick after. I was shaking and my blood sugar plummeted. I need orange juice and graham crackers to get back to normal. After a while I felt fine. With directions in hand, I left Jefferson with a numb breast and the expectation of hearing from them by Tuesday.

On Monday, I was at my exercising when my cell phone rang and lit up RESTRICTED. I told Dwayne, my trainer, I had to take it. He knew why. I got the report that some of my cells were abnormal. Gee, I thought, abnormal isn’t so bad!

Then came the diagnosis- Invasive Lobular Carcinoma. I don’t like the words “invasive” or “carcinoma”!! The good news was that the mass was only one centimeter. Next step, Dr. Whittaker said, was to make an appointment with a breast surgeon.

After I shed a few tears, I dried my eyes and came back to finish my strength exercises. I told Dwayne, I better finish because I needed to be as strong as possible!!