Just after the new year (2009), I began feeling very tired and had a difficult time making it through the day at work. I thought I needed to see my doctor about sleep apnea because I would wake myself taking a gasp of air. This had happened several times in the past but in December I had acid reflux during my sleep and choked a few times. I saw my doctor on January 9th for this and for being so tired. I cried saying, I am so tired and I need energy. I can’t make it through the day at work and everything seems to be an effort. I feel like I’m carrying ten pounds of weight from my arms and legs. I was found to have sleep apnea after a few sleep studies and received a CPAP machine.
In the middle of January I began feeling this pulling sensation on the inside of my left arm whenever I would reach up to grab something. I don’t quite remember how the lump in my breast was found but I think I was in the shower rubbing that arm when I discovered it. I thought, what now? I was also blessed with anxiety so every little thing bothers me. I saw the doctor again, thinking she must think I’m a cronic complainer. She thought it was just a cyst but to be sure, she scheduled me for a mammogram and ultrasound.
It was Friday, Feb 27th, I had the mammogram then the ultrasound. When the Radiologist came in and said he wanted to take a biopsy, I had a bad feeling because the mass had no fluid to be a cyst. The biopsy was very painful and I cried. They put a pressure dressing on the biopsy site, a tiny ice pack and wrapped my chest with a pink pressure wrap. I went to my car and called my husband telling him I was not expecting that at all! The Radiologist said I should get the results on Monday or Tuesday. The wait begins!
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