A Biopsy and Big Girl Panties

After having the 3D Mammography they told me they would need to do a Ultrasound.  Which I was okay with, but I didn't know that they would soon want to do a Biopsy.  

I had never had a Biopsy before, so my nerves were on edge.  No, one was allowed to go back with me,  so hubby had to wait and wonder what was going on for the next hour or so.  

I was at a teaching hospital and well they want other physicians to learn,  the female physician that did my biopsy was wonderful and very compassionate. 

They ask me before they got started if it was okay to have a student physician watching the procedure.  I said yes,  but in my mind I wanted to say no. Of course he was male and young,  which embarrassed me to death.  I learned from that day forward half of Tennessee would soon be seeing the girls before this thing was over with. 

 I had to break them big girl panties out and suck it up! LOL

The procedure wasn't as bad as I had in my mind.  It wasn't easy and I am not gonna lie,  the numbing stuff does sting a little when they put that in your breast.  This physician told me she would keep numbing until I could feel nothing.  I felt nothing,  and the device used to place markers around the area where the mass was worst than the procedure itself.  The sound of that little machine made me think of a electric staple gun going off.  I would jump or tend to move a little when I heard the sound.  Which you aren't allowed to move.  It was a full time job for the nurse in there to keep me still on the table. 

They would soon have markers placed and a enough of the mass to send off for the biopsy.  Pressure was applied and I would soon be dressing applying a ice pack in the bra and out the door I went. 

Yes, I was a little uncomfortable the rest of the day,  but nothing major.  I think some Tylenol was good enough for the pain.  The next day I was sore and that was about the big of it.  







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