Awareness

I just needed to write this post because I'm starting to get a little more scared about my surgery on Monday.  Given that it was just breast cancer awareness month in Sept. I wanted to urge women to be checking themselves for lumps. I'm sure that mine is probably not cancerous but you can never be too sure.  A few months ago I had just stopped breastfeeding and I found a lump in my breast that was the size of a large marble.  I thought it was related to breastfeeding so I didn't think much of it, until I started asking some friends if they had experienced the same thing when they stopped, most did not.  So I decided to call my obgyn and they said it may be a clogged milk duct and to try and express it and give it 2 more weeks. Needless to say I tried all of that and nothing happened, the lump still remained.  So they sent me for an ultrasound, they said there is definitely something there but they couldn't really see it on the ultrasound. So they sent me to go see a surgeon about doing a surgical biopsy.  So this is where I am now, getting surgery on my breast on Monday to find out if it is cancerous. Im hoping and praying that it is not, and I feel pretty good that it isn't, given that I have no history of it in my family.  All I'm trying to say is if you find something, don't let anyone try to tell you that it's nothing, until you know for sure.  Be aware!