December 10th, 2009 - My First Doctor's Appointment

I followed thru on my promise and visited the Doctor to have him check out my breast lump, not because I really thought there was anything seriously wrong, but because I was going thru the routine of what a good woman patient should do when she has a breast lump. I explained my breast lump issue to the doctor and the first words out of his mouth were "Cyst". Exactly what I thought, no big deal. But, he proceeded to tell me that anytime a woman comes in with a breast lump, they take it very seriously and he wanted to proceed with a mammogram and breast ultrasound to verify what we were dealing with and rule out anything else. I "knew" there wasn't anything else going on, but I agreed to testing, mostly because I trust my doctor and knew he was doing what was best. But I was not concerned. Thank God my doctor was proactive in a situation I would have been comfortable ignoring.