174. A lump but not mine...

One of the young members of my support group, NEBB, has already had the big operation that I’m planning on; double mastectomy and reconstruction from my stomach.  I saw her during our weekend in York, five weeks post op and she was doing really well.  Her boobs were healed and looked good.  I’ve followed her progress eagerly, for very obvious reasons.

So when I saw on our FB page that she’d found a lump in one of her new boobs I was horrified.  She had to come home early from her holiday with her husband and her two kids (5 and 11) to get checked.  No one was able to give her an answer to start with.  For over a week, our whole group worried and posted online and discussed. 

In theory, she shouldn’t’ve been able to get a new tumour there.  The lump was in the fat that had been taken from her stomach.  There was no breast tissue left there.  No breast tissue, no cancer.  In theory.  But still.  In a person that had never had cancer, the worry would only be slight.  But we’ve faced cancer, faced death in fact.  So we know a lump can be life threatening. 

Cellulitis is diagnosed.  Antibiotics are prescribed.