Hello dear friend! Hope all of you are enjoying good health! Those who are a bit under the weather, you're my prayers always!!! Be well soon!!
Well.... I've been a patient at three clinics of the hospital. One was the Gynecology when I was having my babies but that's history now, thank goodness!
The other was Orthopedic Clinic for my back pain until the doctors there finally decided that there's nothing else they can do for me & let fate decide on either I will get well on my own or treat me again when things turn to worst!!!
Now the latest addition is the Breast Clinic.... For the whole of last year I've been having a slight pain at my left breast and sometimes there feel like a lump. First I thought maybe it's due to pre-menstrual hormone change. But then the pain started to occur even when it’s not during that time.
Now I'm sure most of you have heard of the Breast Cancer Awareness.
When I read some of the breast cancers survivors stories, some of them said when they're finally diagnosed with it, somehow in their heart they already knew it because of the past symptoms that they've been trying to ignore. And somehow, as according to their own confessions, they did not go for early detection because they feel what they don't know won't hurt them. I feel for their agony when they're finally confronted with the truth. I know, when a tragedy did not fall on us, it's easy for us to say that they should have done this or they should have done that.
Despite knowing that, it still took me almost a year to finally submit myself to the painful mammogram!! Well, I have a lot of excuses... THE normal excuses.... no time, who's gonna pick up the kids, shy, etc, etc. But I was determined to have it done. I'm scare of the unknown. I'd rather have the truth so that I can find ways how to deal with it accordingly. So finally I had my mammo done last year. They found something but wasn’t sure what. So had to do ultra-sound after that. Now, I don’t know how is it the situation at the hospital at your place but here the time period between the actual mammo done & the time they finally gave you the result, the soonest is a month.
And so it’s another month for me to wait for the ultra-sound result too…. You can just imagine the anxiety that my family & me had while waiting for the result to come out….
And when finally it was given to me, I can only say my gratefulness to God and heave a relief sigh.
There was no abnormal lump there but just an excess fat…. But hey!! Where in the world did this excess fat comes from, I wonder?!!!
Despite the all ok result, there’s breast cancer history in my family on my Mum’s side. Her cousin & her aunt. Due to this I’m to have regular check-ups & mammo every year!!
And it is no fun at all going to the hospital every time. The appointment is usually at 9.30am but I have to be there before 7.30 to take a number. If later than that, I will get a number bigger than 100!! And if later than that, there will be no parking space in the hospital compound & I will have to park outside which means about 15 minutes walk!! And despite being that early, it only ended around noon!!
However, I know there’s nothing to fuss about actually. I know prevention is better than cure and I know I should be thankful for being so blessed now with good health and with so many good things that I have in my life right now… and I pray that all my family & friends are all blessed in their lives too….
So there goes another glimpse of my little world....
Take good care of yourself now & Hope all of you have a wonderful Thursday!
Ta Ta For Now!
