Well a lump, you can't really miss I don't think, it poked out at me, just, I wasn't even looking for it, I never checked myself and the minute I found it I thought 'I have cancer' which I suppose everybody does. So obviously I went, I got an appointment and I was sent to the [hospital] up in London and they did a mammogram of course and they made, they went in with an injection and pulled out some cells.
But I couldn't miss it, it pointed out at me and I just immediately thought oh I must have cancer, you always think the worst don't you. People said things like "oh if you can move it then it's a cyst and da, da, da". Everyone said different things but in your head you think right I've got cancer. I'm not really a pessimist but then I was, but luckily enough it wasn't.
At that time you thought it might be cancer. How did you feel before you went into the screening unit?
Very nervous, very nervous, well it changes your life, you think the results when I come out of here can change my life and obviously it wasn't an immediate thing, I had to go back a few times, they were kind of monitoring me, scanning it, mammogram, they were doing various things, x-raying it and I think they obviously weren't sure. |
