I love to be prepared for what is going to happen to this body. How many more scars I am going to own is a fun guessing game and to make a logical guess I scour the internet to understand exactly what is going to happen during each procedure. Since I wasn’t able to find any great pictures prior to my biopsy I thought I had better post some. Some of you are here because you are my tribe, so sorry you get to see my jacked up body. But others might be going through a similar situation as me and I pray that these might help you with what you are gong through in some small way.

The biopsy was done in the radiology office, the same room as the ultrasound to confirm that it was suspicious after the CT scan. All bandages had to be left on for 24 hours and then removed. This was how it looked after 24 hours and bandages were taken off.

After removing the steri-strips this was all that was under there, two small red dots. I think typically you would only have one red mark but we had to switch the size of the needle to a larger one because the node was so deep that the smaller needle couldn’t dig deep enough to reach it. There was visible bruising as the days progressed but nothing like the breast biopsy from last time. All in all this one was a piece of cake!