06/25/2025

I was so scared to go my biopsy. I had 3 people lined up to take me and one by one they all bailed for various legitimate reasons. The evening before, I was home and just couldn’t take not know what was about to happen anymore.

I posted on a social media site in a woman’s group reaching out for advice.

The response that I got was overwhelming!

These women reached out with their prayers, their stories, their advice and their love. I began reading their replies right away and didn’t stop for days – they just kept coming.

The procedure –

The biopsy is performed with the same machine and in the same room as the mammogram. You do get to sit with this procedure, there is a chair and they put a pillow behind my back so that my chest was leaned forward.

The same nurses were there and took lots of pictures – angling my boob this way and that until they had it in the right spot.

When they are ready, the radiologist comes in and performs the biopsy. There is lots of lidocaine – it doesn’t hurt, but I did feel some pricks deep inside when they were adding more lidocaine. The mammogram machine delivers lidocaine as it is performing the biopsy!

For me, I think they took a few tries to get the first sample and then had to go deeper for the second (11mm I found out later from my report). I think I felt 6 tiny little pricks as they delivered more lidocaine and not much else.

When the radiologist looked at something (I don’t know anything about this part – I was just breathing: in 1,2,3,4 out 1,2,3,4) they decided that it was the correct area and the machine inserts a little titanium marker where they took the samples.

The machine goes away, someone grabs my boob to stop the bleeding and the room goes dark.

When I come back, a very nice nurse is compressing my boob, she said something about stitches that dissolve.

As soon as I can walk safely, we go to the changing room and she wraps me with like an ace bandage around my entire chest, places an ice pack somewhere in there and then helps me put on my bra and shirt.

She hands me a piece of paper with, what I can only assume, is everything that she just told me. I am out the door after that.

Where I sat in my car for 35 minutes until I felt that I could drive safely.