Cancer Sticks

Let me start by saying, with great affirmation, that "Smoking Kills!"

Sisters and Brothers in Smoke! GIVE IT UP!

I've just undergone surgery on my right boobie last thursday at the Manila Doctors Hospital. BTW, my great love and respect goes to Dra. Silao for being so kind and patient with me all the time. I've got to admit that having a patient with very low tolerance for pain and melodramatic tendencies could be such a drag to a surgeon such as she. I would cry like a child everytime she would as much as come 5 feet close to my bumpers.

It all started, August 4, when I started to feel a slight pain on my breast, but since I was confident that I will be having menstruation soon, I dismissed it as a pre-menstrual pain. I went about my usual activities, but after 4 days the pain was getting worse that I decided to contact my O.B., who also by the way, is a good friend. And being so, he told me to take pain killers and go easy with S&M activities during sex. As if...funny...how i wish...possible...a little bit tricky with both kids in the same room...but....

Of course that wasn't the cause of the pain! Anyway, i digress...

After 4 days of taking meds,

"4 is really a cursed number didn't you notice, 444 new number of the devil!"

I felt a small lump under my right nipple. Waaaah! End of the World!

The very next day I went to show it to Dra. Silao and Dr. Capitulo. I had an ultra sound and it confirmed the Ductal Ectasia. This only means that my milk duct has been clogged and the oils and fluids that it excretes cannot go out, ergo the lump. And guess what caused the clogging? Cancer sticks! The nicotine causes my ducts' lining to thicken and blocks the excretions.

Dra. Silao scheduled my operation a week after the results came out and during the span of that week, the duct exploded already and caused an infection inside my boobs. My right boobs inflated atleast 10% bigger and I was in pain 24 hours a day. Do i have squirming in your seats now? Now let me add another bit of information, the wound on my breast was kept open, until now, until the time my doctor is sure that there is no more infection. Every other day, I have to go and visit her to have the it checked and cleaned.

Are you still up to find out the whole painful process of the cleaning? Nope, guess so, I know I'm not.

This whole experience made me realize the smoking can really kill you, not now, but soon. I was lucky that I get to realize it early, thanks for my ducts, and now I swear on both my breasts that I will stop smoking and continue to get those cancer sticks out of my life!

Hope you do too!