So I was right to be nervous about that additional image at the breast clinic Friday. They found a mass and an asymmetry, both of which can be problems. I've had both before. Pretty sure the asymmetry is what led to my surgical biopsy but I have to look through my huge binder of breast related testing and results to be sure.

This time they didn't go directly to a biopsy which is unusual. I go up on the 30th for a diagnostic mammogram and an ultrasound. I was getting diagnostic mammograms annually until this time. I remember being excited last year because I was going to a more regular routine and my mammograms would be like most women get with the only difference being my annual MRI thrown in there. But that's apparently not going to work for me.

I just wish they were going to just biopsy it. I live with the knowledge that I will have extra screening and sometimes that screening will lead to biopsies. Having an intermediate step just is stressful. I understand they want to know exactly what it is before biopsying it, I just think with my history (6 biopsies in the last 3 years) I'm more than likely going to need a biopsy.

I guess time will tell. So now I have my barium swallow Thursday, 2 days of clear fluids only before my colonoscopy starting Monday, colonoscopy and endoscopy Wednesday and breast imaging the following Wednesday. Then I'm doing an in-person session with my pdoc in mid-August.

This is a lot.