Rewind about 3 months ago, it was in April sometime I felt this lump in my lower abdomen, below my belly button. I thought to myself well this is a weird lump, I wonder if this was from having Case ( he was a pretty big baby). So I went on with my day and didn't think too much more about it. Then it kept coming back to my mind so I thought maybe I should ask some family members what they think. I called my cousin Kendall (who is more like a sister and is like my google when it comes to anything medical) and she said could you have Bridget feel it and see what she thinks? So I went to Bridget ( my brothers fiance) a little while later and said I have a weird lump is this normal. She felt it and said "I think you should call your doctor like now, or first thing in the morning". So I called my PCP the next morning and then the tests began.
My PCP (who I think is excellent by the way) did not think it was much to be concerned about at the beginning, she thought it could just be some fatty tissue, or who knows, definitely did not think cancer. She sent me for a CT scan anyways just to make sure. I asked to do all of my tests and procedures at UPMC.
May 12th I went in for my CT scan, yes I had to drink the contrast and wait an hour. The same day I also had blood work which my CBC did not show anything out of the ordinary no red flag from there. The CT results came back with a few odd findings that they wanted to do an ultra sound (the "mass" was still unidentifiable). I am glad I went in for the ultra sound instead of just saying "just remove it, not knowing at the time but with Sarcoma Cancer you do not want to just go cutting into it without the knowledge".
May 19th I went in for the ultrasound and man did that hurt. I have had many ultra sounds with both pregnancies and none of them have hurt like this did when they pressed down on the tumor I about jumped off the table. The ultra sound results came back and the General Surgeon who I was now referred to looked at it and decided he wanted to get a biopsy before removal off the "unknown mass".
At this point I was terrified and did not know what to expect so I paused all testing for a week and skipped off to my Aunts beach house (Thank you Mim <3 ) to spend a much needed week with Kendall and her family.
June 4th I went to UPMC for an ultrasound guided biopsy. (For those of you who do not know what that is .. well they use the ultra sound machine to guide the radiologist as they stick a big needle into the mass and excerpt samples of tissue to send to pathology).
Two long dragging weeks went by, waiting for the result. I found out June 16th, 2020.
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