I am ‘blessed’, if that’s the correct word, with a pair of 36HH breasts. The right one has a nice curving scar round the outside, where they gained access to remove the breast tumour in one direction, and 4 lymph nodes in the other direction. The size posed a problem when I had radiotherapy last November, as it was impossible to find a position where I didn’t have overhang of breast. Skin touching skin can result in burns. Sure enough, in January, I developed a nasty burn all around the underside of the breast, up round the side, and into the scar tissue from the surgery. It peeled a couple of times and took several weeks to heal. Ever since then, the affected area has felt different to the rest of the breast and remains a bit pink.
It keeps coming up on CT scan reports as an area of concern. It has been inspected 3 times by my oncologist, and after the last viewing, she decided to refer me back to the radiotherapy consultant. The idea being that if he decided it was nothing to worry about, the CT people would stop reporting on it. The same process with endocrinology got my ‘adrenal incidentaloma’ off the worry list.
So I had a rather quick appointment with the radiotherapy consultant today. Rapid inspection, it’s oedema, another one off the list. If only my liver tumours could be written away so easily.
