[KellyA]

Grace,


Please push for further tests. My story is very similar. I had (7 years ago) 2 separate surgeries, and each time had the lumps biopsied- both were benign. Well, in February of last year, I found another small lump in the same breast. It was immediately written off as another fibrocystic lump and I was made to feel like a hypochondriac. I can't explain it, but this time I had a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach and wouldn't let up. My doc rolled his eyes at me and ordered an MRI (I think just to shut me up). Turns out that 2 cancerous lesions showed up. One directly behind the scar tissue where the previous two surgeries were and the one thatI found. If it were not for the smaller one that I found, I would have never even known that the larger tumor was hiding behind the scar tissue.

My point is not to scare you, but to take each incident into account separately and NEVER take someone elses word that its probably nothing. In the end if they're wrong, its your life, not theirs. It's probably OK- but get an MRI or a biopsy to be sure. Then you will not have it lurking in the back of your head.

Love, Kelly