Bad News Day

So my breast doctor called me today to say they had found something not benign in the biopsy of stuff that they had cut out of my breast about ten days ago.  What! Everyone had been saying it was just a couple of cysts and they aren't usually malignant,  like I had the impression that 99% of the time cystic lumps in your breast are okay. They either shrink or go away or need to be cut out.  I'd opted for cut out because one of them looked -- and felt-- a bit large to me and there was another one underneath that. So they took those two out.

In fact, there was a lot of surprise in my doctor's voice -- or she's very convincing -- and she said she was surprised as it was quite unexpected.  She said she'd gotten the pathology report back and expected it to be normal but when they looked at these lumps, eh voila, they saw something. So now I have to go get an MRI and then go talk to my doctor about what happens next. I'm especially concerned because there is still another little cyst in my breast.... but maybe it's not a cyst.  But I guess I will found out more after the MRI which is two days away. What is interesting is that no one saw anything in my mammogram which I had less than 6 months ago. Did this Big C thing start after that? Was it hiding away inside a cyst?

So I decided to blog the Big C thing and the photo I'm posting is of my Aunt Margaret who I believe died in her sixties from breast cancer. Needless to say I'm in my sixties, so I'm hoping treatments have gotten better than when she experienced this.