Do You Know the Muffin Man?

Do You Know the Muffin Man?

Ok, so it's biopsy day, right on! By the way, many of you know that I pretty much already knew that I had BC at that point. I had received a copy of the reports on my mammogram and ultrasound and based on the wording, the BIRADS code of a 4C, and Dr. Google, I just knew. Anyway, I go in and I'm on a table and they are getting the ultrasound ready to use as a guide for the biopsy. There's also a big computer screen on the other side of the table. The technician punches up a mammogram pic of my tumor. Ok, hyperventalating now. I read all about benign tumors and their characteristics. And, I read all about the other type too and this was looking like the other type majorly! I tried to concentrate, because the doc was numbing the whole area and that kinda hurt.....about 5 needle sticks, fun. I kept looking back at that big screen on the other side of the table and all I could think while they were gathering 5 different core samples was "do you know the muffin man?" over and over again.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBZY-89EiB8&feature=related

See, the big pic on the computer screen looked like the Gingerbread Man when he was being tortchured by Lord Farquaad in Shrek (our family is obsessed with this movie). It (tumor in question) seemed to have a couple of round arms, a head, and where the legs would have been it just kinda faded away. Sooooo, the coining of the Gingerbread Man (the kids know this story too and they think it's pretty funny).

So, the gathering of little wormy looking samples is finished and I'm sitting up while they try to get the area to stop bleeding. I decide one last ditch effort to leave there with a little hope that this is going to be nothing. I point at the screen and fight my impulse to say "that's a nice boulder"* and instead say something like, that doesn't look like a Fibroadenoma? She answers, no. Ok, I'll try again......and it can't be a cyst, right? She chimes right in with a "nope". Ok "So, there's not alot else it can be, right?" Now, here's her chance......she answers "no, not really." Ok, I new that.....YIKES!

The incision wasn't bad. It hurt a little for a few days, but that little pain was a little hard to notice over those internal voices that were screaming at me....OMG!

* Donkey quote from Shrek