Going under the knife...

I'm back from today's appointment regarding the lump/mass in my breast. I hadn't actually realized that the "little" lump above the bigger lump was now part of the bigger lump...and they aren't really "lumps" any more.

Fortunately, my doctor is confident this is not a huge problem. She explained (and I haven't yet been able to repeat it and make it sound as simple as she did) that the "fatty tissue" of the breast sometimes does this when trauma to the tissue causes scarring. Add in the blood loss to the tissue, probably due to the bruising, and the fatty tissue/scarring becomes different somehow (see, I told you I couldn't explain it very well) and it sorta necrotizes. So, instead of having this malleable fatty breast tissue, I have a harder, denser tissue in my breast.

All that said, she'd like to biopsy it. But, the needle could sample "good" tissue" and not any potentially "bad" tissue. Plus, with my desire to just have the damn thing removed, it makes more sense to remove it and let Pathology analyze the whole thing. There's a risk that the incision for removal could cause further scarring (meaning: it could happen all over again) but we'll have the pathology from the this time to guide us.

So, May 31st, I go under the knife to have this mass removed and then I get to wait 4-5 days (probably all business days, so we're talking late the following week) to hear from Pathology.

Oh yay. It's so much fun being a girl.