My Loonie-Sized Health Scare
I am finally on the other side of something that's been plaguing my mind for most of this year. So now that it's over, I feel like decompressing and talking about it. It's going to be a long, rambling, stream-of-consciousness type of story, and it might not be worth your time to read it. But it is worth my time to write it. Back in February, I was in the shower and I had a passing thought: manual breast exams. I remembered that manual breast exams are something we should be doing. And they're something I only ever do infrequently (when I'm in the shower and have a passing thought). So I did one. *For anyone who isn't sure how to perform a self-exam, HERE is a link to instructions from breastcancer.org It just so happens that during this self-exam I felt something. It was a lump- large and firm, it was in my right breast, deep under the skin. It felt like it was almost sitting on my ribs- above and to the left of my nipple. I felt it over and ove...
