Boob Check

Although I don't think it isn't anything too serious, I am off to have an ultrasound on my right boob (possibly both, but right boob is the sore one). I am trying to be very positive and not think of the worst.

This time last week, I was getting ready to see my regular Dr because of my constant sore back. While I was showering, I lifted up my right arm to do a girly thing (shaving my armpit lol) and I felt a pain. I was thinking it was just PMT tender boobs, so checked my left boob. It was fine. So I gave myself an examination, although not sure it was correct because like most women, I don't self exam myself very often. LESSON TO ALL - self exam on the 1st of every month no matter what age we are!!!

I couldn't feel a definite lump, but also wasn't sure what I was supposed to feel. Again, like most women, I found it hard to distinguish between mammory glands and a lump. So I told my Dr about it and he got me in to see one of the female Dr's. She wasn't able to tell either, and scheduled an ultrasound for me.

The point of this post is not for you all to worry about me, but more of an out there thought that we should all get to know our breasts, so that we can tell if something doesn't feel right and get it seen to straight away. I could have easily just put it down to nothing, and not said anything, but what if something isn't OK? How many women are in my position and DON'T do anything about it until it's too late?

The tenderness could be just one of those things, but what if it isn't? I would much rather go through all this and be told there is nothing wrong, then to have done nothing and be told that it's too late!

I knew someone like that - my ex-husband's Aunt. She went to hospital feeling ill, only to be told she had advanced breast cancer and it had spread. She died within 2 weeks.

Let's not be another statistic. CHECK YOUR BREASTS REGULARLY !!!

(this isn't meant to be crude or a joke)