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Okay, so I haven't been mentioning full details on this blog as I guess I'm quite a blend into the background type of person and don't reveal too much about myself....but this blog post will be different and it will list every detail possible of what happened today. Let's begin with some background information I had a lump in my breast for a while (roughly 6 months) and it was not going away so a couple of weeks ago I did the correct thing and went to the doctors. This was fine. She (the doctor at my GP) examined me and said it was nothing to worry about but she will send me off to get an ultrasound done on the lump to find out whether it is a cyst or a fatty lump and then told me if it was a cyst it could be drained and if it was a …show more content…

She gets tucked in and starts doing an ultrasound on my breast and measures the circumference or something or other on the screen and then tells me to clean it up but also says that it's nothing to worry about, that it's just a fibroadenoma which is a fatty lump that most young women develop (and yes I had to look up that word). Afterwards the doctor stated that she was going to do a blood test, to which I asked if she needed my arm as that's where I've seen my sister have hundreds of blood tests done (and it probably is around that number because she has to have her blood checked regularly) but the doctor said no to which I thought was strange and then she stated she needed to take it from the breast as she needed the cells which I already thought a blood test was a bit weird to have considering she did an ultrasound and told me it was a benign lump that most young women develop but I was in fear as I hate needles as it is, let alone having them take something from inside of my body and my anxiety, of course, went through the roof as I tried to calm myself down. However as I've witnessed many blood tests I thought to myself "yeah I can get through this on my own it'll be over within seconds" so I got into the position she asked me to do but was still wondering when I gave her consent to stick a needle in my breast but oh well

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