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Show CHRYSALIS pAGE 152 -17- My mother has discovered a lump coming almost opposite a tiny indentation on her breast. She showed it to her doctor. He looked carefully, but he couldn't see what she saw. He thought she was imagining it, but finally he noticed the nipple tipping slightly, so they decided to be on the safe side and do a biopsy. They told her not to worry - nine times out of ten these things turn out to be benign. She would not have told me. She would have kept it from me as I did from her. It was Papa who told me. She is terrified, but everyone thinks it will be a simple removal of a benign lump. "I will be in the class with Rosalyn Carter and be home in an hour," Mama assures me. |