The specialist had told me to call her Monday morning to let her know how things went over the weekend and to give me my surgery prep directions...I made that phone call almost with giddy excitement cuz this was it...it was gonna be over soon!!! So I thought...when she answered the phone she informed me she had consulted with a colleague over the weekend from USF and they had decided that my cyst was not an operable cyst and what I had was a galactocele...it was a type of blocked milk duct that could not be removed with surgery and basically had to be treated with needle aspiration but she needed to remove the drain cuz it was allowing my body to misread the situation and continue making more fluid to replace what was coming out...she wanted me to come back in on Tuesday so we could return to this process...I hung up completely overwhelmed that we were going to have to continue this needle piercing type of treatment but at least we had a diagnosis now and the thing had a name...I went in the next day for her to take out the drain. We went back a couple of days later to needle aspirate again...about 120ccs this time...I went home with another appointment set for the next week...it filled back up again and again...was this thing ever going to go away?! As a little side note to the fun of all this, that Sunday night I went to take a shower to the glory of fluid running down the side of my body like a faucet...I freaked!!! It was coming out of the hole where she had taken out the drain tube...I called her emergency number for her to return my call and tell me that that wasn't necessarily out of the ordinary & I just need to put a maxi pad in my tube top to soak it up and hopefully while it was leaking it would ease the pain...okey doke, she was the doctor and after all, I had already toted around cabbage in my top, what was a maxi pad at this point...we went to bed to wake up the next morning to me swimming with the sheets, my pjs, and the pad all drenched....what next?!?! Little did I know...
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