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Where to start here? Well for the past few months I've been worried over a little lump that I had at least some reason to believe might be something to actually worry about. Being adopted its really hard not knowing my medical history and more importantly if anyone had breastcancer.

So for the past few months I waited to see if it would go away on its own. It didn't. I went to the doctor to get it checked. Keep in mind that up to this point my anxiety over the matter had been building and building. Am I worrying over nothing? Could it be something? The doctor examined me and told me that, well its hard to say since the surrounding tissue is naturally lumpy so she had me schedule an apointment for an ultrasound to put the issue to rest.

I gotta say I was relieved and worried at the same time; relieved because I wasn't imagining things, worried because I wasn't imagining things. I had to wait a week for my appointment and despite all the advice and everyone telling me you're way too young to have a problem, I still felt nervous.

Day of the appointment I left school right after class and took the bus and trolley straight to the hospital...I was little early. So I had some time to kill. I crossed the street to the mall and ended up doing one of those survey things. Got five dollars out of it. ^_^

I browsed around a little more and I was starting to feel pretty good actually. I went back to the hospital and signed in at the desk. The wait was fairly short and the receptionists were nice. The technologist calls me into the back,(yeah apparently thats what the people who run the ultrasound machines are called) I'm then outfitted in the latest in hospital fashion to go along with the lovely green and white paper bracelet the receptionists gave me. Then after a short wait the exam begins. It was pretty cool seeing what some of my insides looked like on the screen.

afterward I took a little snooze on the examination bed while waiting for further instructions, you know the usual post medical test stuff like: We'll have the results in such and such a time and someone will contact you, etc. Not in this case. The doctor was on hand and looked at the ultrasound scans immediatly.

After about fifteen minutes the technologist comes back into the room and tells me the result : Your test results were negative.
Me: Woot!

I was so elated I never got around to asking what the lump really was. I guess it doesn't matter 'cause they couldn't even find it in the scan. This doesn't mean I'm entirely off the hook ofcourse I will have to do self exams for the rest of my life, but that wasn't any different from before. Anyway I'm so relieved and I wanted to share this wonderful news like a week ago, but Gaia ate my journal entry or something.*Shrug* I'm happy and healthy and the rest is history.

-Yume