I'm not too clear on when and how I first found the lump in my right breast, but it was late January, and I think I was taking a shower. I'm pretty sure I wasn't purposely doing a self-exam.
Surprisingly, I did not feel particularly alarmed. At my last annual check-up with my Primary Care Physician (PCP), my doctor had performed the usual breast exam, and she felt a "fatty deposit". She directed me to feel the little bump myself, in my right breast, and as she was not concerned, I thought nothing of it.
So when I felt this lump in late January, I thought, "Oh, this must be that fatty deposit..." I had actually forgotten all about it, and figured I had just "re-discovered" it.
As the days passed, however, it did seem curious that this lump was all of a sudden very noticeable to me. If it was the same "fatty deposit", and had been there all the time, why was it suddenly so prominent, when it had been so unobtrusive before?
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