Boob in a tube.
I did go to the doctor yesterday. He suggested that I may have a benign tumor in one of my milk ducts, and if this is true, I ought to have surgery to remove it. To find out for sure, I’m going in for an MRI today. I don’t really know what to expect — in my imagination, they’ll put me in some sort of long tube and do some photoimaging. I ought to look it up online to see what it’ll be like. Anyway, it’s expensive — 700 RMB (about $80, I guess). I was pretty relieved at the doctor’s idea, since I was worried about cancer, but then I realized if I get an operation there will be pain to deal with then too. Really, the thing I’m most scared of with the operation is the anaesthesia! According to the doctor, the operation won’t be disfiguring (that’s what he said, anyway). Theoretically, my school will pay me back for the test, and for the surgery, but I’m afraid they’ll can me because they won’t want to pay. Actually, the GOOD news I got yesterday was that they wanted me to come back, and I was thinking that now that I know this I can relax, and decide to devote next year to personal/professional development, but now this … I haven’t told my parents about any of this, and I don’t know if I will. They can’t do anything about the situation, and having them worry about it wouldn’t do anybody any good.