I had a cyst, I found a lump, there again it was the left breast, and I found a lump, this would have been about 1991/92. And I was in bed there again, I was in bed one night and I found this lump. And I remember looking at my husband and he was sound asleep, and I thought, oh my God, breast cancer, I've got breast cancer and I had myself dead and buried in a couple of months because of that. The age, I didn't know a lot about breast cancer, and thought it's, it'll never happen to me. I went to the doctor the next day, who, it was quite painful, the lump was quite painful, and she assured me that it, most likely, it would be a benign cyst, so I was referred to just our local hospital. And they did a biopsy, yes, and it was just a cyst. But the doctor, the hospital doctor told me that usually if it's cancerous the lump, it's usually a hard lump, like a pea, and there's no feeling in it. So she said that, "It's a good thing at least yours is painful, and if it's painful it's more likely to be a cyst." So that was fine, so for all those years afterwards. I just didn't give it another thought.
Did that feel soft that lump or..?
The lump I found, cancerous or the cyst?
The cyst.
Yes, it did, it did, aha, as I say it was quite tender and painful. But once I'd had that removed, it was just a needle they did, to remove it with. I was fine and I say I didn't think about breast cancer an awful lot.
So, was it just like a syringe to take the lump out?
Like a syringe, yes. Try and think of the word for it, aspirated, that's it yes, yes, they aspirated it aha. And I had a follow-up mammogram, and that was it, I didn't have anything else until I became.... |
