March 2017: Had a cyst removed from my chest because it looked like a third nipple (most disconcerting). A week later I got a call from my GP – turns out it wasn’t a cyst (despite being assured by lady who did my mammogram & ultrasound in January (which I’d asked for because I was concerned about pain in my breast) that it was), the lab found metastatic breast cancer cells.
Subsequent bone & CT scans showed to my shock, not just tumours on my bones (which I was expecting as this would explain pains I’d been complaining about since August) but also one lung nearly full of fluid, with suspicious nodules in it, some lymph involvement and suspicious spots on my liver.
Diagnosis was confirmed near enough on my 48th birthday
