Titty Check - Self
I was off sick from work as I have chronic fatigue and I was chronically fatigued. I work in busy charity shop which sells furniture as well as the usual goodies you'd find. I'd been struggling for ages but I refused to give in to the fatigue. But I had to.
During the first couple of weeks off, I was lying in bed and was doing my regular check of my breasts. Due to their size, they're very lumpy anyway (or meaty as I like to call them) so when I was examining them, I came across something in right breast but decided it was nothing other than my meatyness. When it came to the left breast I felt something that was more like a marble, quite solid. I moved positions to see if the lump disappeared, but it didn't. I wasn't massively alarmed, but I did think "I'll get Val to have a feel of that when I next see her". Val's had breast cancer twice and used to be a nurse.
Titty Check - Val
When I next saw Val I asked when I was leaving "oooh will you have a feel of this and see whether you think I should get it checked at the doctors". She had a feel and said yes, best get it checked out.
Titty Check - GP
I rang the GP the following day and was given an appointment for the following day.
I visited Dr Kirk who gently examined me. When I was dressed again I sat with her she said she could feel a lump and was going to refer me to the Breast Clinic to get it checked out. She said it would be a 2 week wait referral which I now know means an urgent request.. When she tried to get the appointment it was just over 2 1/2 weeks. I wasn't particularly panicked about it. I had the appointment date and that's all I could do. She also advised I would have to stop my HRT until further notice.
I told a couple of friends and my mom and I think my little sista.
Still not really panicked or overly concerned.
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