A Real Scare! October 15, 2008

Fall is in the air, the leaves are turning to brilliant oranges and reds. Halloween is just around the corner, when all the little goblins come out to play, trying to scare the pants off you. October is also breast cancer awareness, which hit a little to close to home for me. I had not had a check up in quiet some time and had been experiencing a little tenderness under my arm and the side of my breast and I felt what I thought might be a knot. I made an appointment with my family doctor, he said that he felt what might be fibrocystic but that I needed to have a mammogram to be on the safe side. Fibrcystic breast disease runs in my family, my Mother had several scares over the years, so better safe than sorry I made an appointment to have a mammogram. As it turned out, it was fibrocystic breast disease. He said that breast nodules are a frequently presented gynecologic complaint.