A few updates

Well. It has been a while since I have typed anything in my "blog" so I am going to try and keep this short but sweet! 

I left off that I was in the works of getting stuff together for a Breast Reduction correct? WELL. Thats not the case anymore. After visiting with the lovely Dr.Belz at PRMA. The insurance responded to the request and they DENYED the surgery saying it was cosmetic and they needed a run down of things I couldn't do be cause of my boobs. First off! Who are they to say it is cosmetic?! Are they not reading the paper work? Dents in my shoulders, pain in my back, lower back and shoulders?! etc. anyway  So in the denial letter they said if I felt the decision were to be appealed I could do that. Your damn right I wanted to appeal it and get a 2nd decision. Dr.Belz got involved and submitted the appeal for me and said for me to wait. The insurance got back with her after getting the appeal and they told her that she couldn't submit it and that I had to write one. SO I DID. She tried really hard to get this approved for me. About a week or so later I heard back from her staff and received a letter the next day DECLINING ME AGAIN. Mind you after everything the insurance had requested and said it all came down to the policy. After them wanting a list of everything I wasn't capable and photos sent and tears shed. They said our policy wouldn't cover it....couldnt they have told us that waaaaay in the beginning? OH and did I mention I went to physical therapy for a month?!?! And was told that my posture was bad! But I got nice massages from Sandra because one of my SI joints was out of whack. So it wasn't all for nothing! MOVING ON.

So I decide I still want to get the lump removed so I make a appointment with Dr.Miller again fro The Start Center. In between that time I am still getting mammograms and ultrasounds done on the boob with the fibroadenoma lump in it. My gyno calls and talk to me about 2 new lumps and he isn't worried about them. Ok awesome whatever. I'll take your word for it doc. WELL Last week June 23rd I go see Dr.Miller.He too btw was flabbergasted about the insurance thing and how they denied me. He even called Dr.Belz while I was getting undressed or dressed in the room.  He looks at my paper work and is curious about the masses. He even calls the STRIC center down Medical Drive from us and asks one of the radiologist theres opinion. They say they would want to do a biopsy. GREAT.  After getting off the phone he does an exam and he can't feel them. He says he wants two biopsies done. WONDERFUL. I know what that means! Needles! 

One week later today. My husband and I went to Women's Imaging Center to get my biopsies done. I have to tell you. Out of all the surgeries I have had, this scared me more because I was going to be awake! I cried a bit I have to say! The radiologist said there were 4 new masses and that he was going to sample two of them. One of them has grown within the last few months...for those who haven't had a biopsy on their boob heres how it went for me....if you don't care...skip passed LOL. After waiting and filling out paperwork I was in a room with a nurse and she did a ultrasound of my boob and had me fill out some papers. I went and waiting in my cute lil pink gown top with Dwayne (hubby) for a few minutes till the called me back again for the procedure since the Dr. was with another person. They call me back. You lay on a table. You get cleaned up they turn all the lights off except one and they point it where they are doing the biopsy. I'm turned on my side with a towel under my left side. I cried a little when it was all about to happen. The doctor comes in and is really nice and soft spoken. I wish I could remember his name! He walks me through everything he is doing and is about to do and how it should feel. Now you are going to feel a little stick and burning. I actually didn't feel like. Then I am numb and they do a little incision  so they can put the core need in. Then he does the biopsy. You hear clicking noises like a staple gun when he takes the samples. also feel a little pull or it was just from my boob jiggling haha. I'm thinking wow, that wasn't so bad! And it was quick! The 2nd biopsy they went in on another part of my boob. He numbs me and after he tells me "let me know if you feel this" and I am thinking ok...he didn't say that the first time. And sure enough I felt him make the incision. My skin wasn't numbed enough! I said YA...felt that! So he numbed me again. did the biopsy. And also, after the biopsy they insert "markers" by the mass they biopsy for future stuff. Its done. then they clean me up again and bandage me up. I must had bled for a while cause they nurse was hold my boob for quite a while. 

I was soooo worried for really nothing. I think I am going to have more pain afterward then I did during the procedure lol. Motrin and Ice packs for the next few days. I should have results on Tuesday they said. I'm not worried about it though. Wow. What a change of events. go in to get a lump removed...that turns into a possible breast reduction...then that gets shot down, so its back to getting the lump removed..then biopsies....BUT I will still be having this old lump taken out. Hopefully that will be the only thing that will be removed. We shall have to see when I get the results next week. 

So much for keeping it short but sweet huh?