On September 1st I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Kanashiro at the Breast Health Clinic. This day was filled with many emotions from sadness to hope and beyong. Dr. Kanashiro brought in her portable ultrasound machine to take a better look herself. Upon investigations she decided to drain the cyst to relieve pressure and send the fluids in for testing. The fluid was a merky dark brown and at that moment I knew...something was wrong, this was not normal.
My follow up with Dr. Kanashiro was on September 13th and I attended the Breast Health Clinic once again to get the results of the fluid they aspirated. On this visit it was discovered that the "thick walled cyst" had grown in size since being aspirated and Dr. Kanashiro felt it was a good idea to remove it for further testing. I received localaized freezing and they began the lumpectomy. Once they were in they discovered not only one mass but three - all the size of golf balls (2 cm) and one that poped while being removed. It took everything in me not to look at the masses that had been removed, but coming from a medical profession, I couldnt hold back anymore and turned my help to look at the specimen containers. That was it for me...everything inside of me that was tellling me everything was fine was gone at that moment!
These masses looked like tumors to me, they were light pink in color, wrinkled and oddly shaped and completely solid.
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