[speaker001:] Next patient Dr.... [knocking]
[speaker002:] Come in, come in.
[Katrina:] Morning Doctor.
[speaker002:] Good morning. Now what can I do for this lady?
[Katrina:] My daughter's Doctor. I didn't really want had a mastectomy. another lump there.
[speaker002:] Another lump?
[Katrina:] It might only be breast tissue, I don't know that.
[speaker002:] Mhm. Let's have a wee look.
[Katrina:] And she called him in on Sunday night, I mean I wouldn't have.... No....
[speaker002:] Right.
[Katrina:] It's hard. But i it's like where the stitches are you know.
[speaker002:] Where where the stitches were, right.
[Katrina:] Well, partly where they are....
[speaker002:] Right, er
[Katrina:] I just happened to feel it because the wounds haven't been healing Doctor,
[speaker002:] Has it not?
[Katrina:] using that erm what's the name of the cream? That steroid cream?
[speaker002:] Eumobate
[Katrina:] Aha.
[speaker002:] Right.
[Katrina:] Well, I've been to see Mr, and then I was off again to see him, and he said I was right. But he didn't say whether I, I just continued with the cream, but it was the other night I just felt wee. Could be a bit of breast tissue, I don't know.... But it is quite a hard lump....
[speaker002:] Aye, he was quite happy. He couldn't feel anything
[Katrina:] No he
[speaker002:] to worry about? Mhm.
[Katrina:] That's what he said.
[speaker002:] Yes.
[Katrina:] Here I felt a lump. Yes,
[speaker002:] In a different
[Katrina:] aye, it's a different bit. It's higher. It's up... he didn't actually examine that part where I think there's a lump.... See after a breast operation does it take a long long time with stitches?
[speaker002:] Oh yes. Oh aye.
[Katrina:] Aye cos I tried the prosthesis and I tried the, but it just catches, and then er. And it's
[speaker002:] Keeps, keeps rubbing against this, this is
[Katrina:] so sore. Aye.
[speaker002:] That's the worst bit.
[Katrina:] That's the worst bit. But
[speaker002:] In here.
[Katrina:] but that's no where the lump is.
[speaker002:] Let's have a wee look at this lump and see what...
[Katrina:] Stupid, you're into a state, isn't it?
[speaker002:] No, not. Cos
[Katrina:] [sniff]
[speaker002:] in that bit. See what's going on here....
[Katrina:] Oh right you know what I.
[speaker002:] That it?
[Katrina:] Oh
[speaker002:] I think that's your rib.
[Katrina:] My rib?
[speaker002:] I think that's your rib.
[Katrina:] No
[speaker002:] Aha, that's right. Oh yeah.
[Katrina:] That my rib?
[speaker002:] That feels like a rib.
[Katrina:] Oh Jesus. Is it?
[speaker002:] Aye. That's your other one, that's the one on top, there's the one underneath. And then there's, the other one's just underneath that, so there.
[Katrina:] Oh it's a rib then.
[speaker002:] See that, that's your rib.
[Katrina:] Aha. It's hard?
[speaker002:] Aye, oh it's hard. Very very hard.
[Katrina:] Because so was the last lump, hard and then it was like you know?
[speaker002:] That's right. That's hard, yeah. Right. That's, that's, that's er the edge of your rib.
[Katrina:] [sigh]
[speaker002:] I don't think, I don't feel anything else there, Katrina. Now when are you going back to see Mr?
[Katrina:] I go back
[speaker002:] Right. I'll drop him a wee note, and tell him that you, that you, you know, you can feel this er I'll tell him I've had a look at it, and think it's the rib that's showing through. I'll see what he says.
[Katrina:] I've had a lot of bother with a wee bit of red blisters
[speaker002:] Aye up the top. That's, that's, that's the stitches.
[Katrina:] you know it's a bit of a and it's really sore like. And then as the day goes on, I've got to go and tear this off, cos it gets, these bits get red,
[speaker002:] Red red raw.
[Katrina:] oh really sore Doctor, you cannae
[speaker002:] Right.
[Katrina:] Then it comes in like a tingling feeling. Like a, a ne a nettle stinging you you
[speaker002:] Right.
[Katrina:] know. And it's just
[speaker002:] Sounds
[Katrina:] the clothes that are doing that.
[speaker002:] Aye, it sounds like the stitches right enough.
[Katrina:] And does that take a long time?... I mean
[speaker002:] Yes.
[Katrina:] I thought, I didn't think that it takes as long as that. I mean he did say they were stitches that come out er what
[speaker002:] That there, you get, there are some stitches that c
[Katrina:] They stay in but he says that
[speaker002:] That's right.
[Katrina:] in the body. But they don't come out with your, you know your bath.
[speaker002:] That's right. They're they're too
[Katrina:] They just integrate in the body.
[speaker002:] They're too deep underneath the skin.
[Katrina:] Aye, he said that.
[speaker002:] The way the way
[Katrina:] Cos I heard it takes as long.
[speaker002:] That's why they take so long.... there's... now
[Katrina:] Just keep on with that cream?
[speaker002:] U use this stuff instead of that er Eumobate It's
[Katrina:] Aha.
[speaker002:] slightly stronger.
[Katrina:] Aha.
[speaker002:] And that might do that, I'll drop Mr a wee note, tell him that you've been in,
[Katrina:] Aha.
[speaker002:] so that when he sees you the next time, he'll double check that.
[Katrina:] Aye. Aha.
[speaker002:] But I don't think there's anything
[Katrina:] Er
[speaker002:] to worry about Katrina.
[Katrina:] I hope not. No.
[speaker002:] No.
[Katrina:] I just, I just felt that it was the cream the other night, and then I just felt oh, you
[speaker002:] Mhm.
[Katrina:] know b what I've been getting on Friday and Saturday night was an awfully big
[speaker002:] Yes.
[Katrina:] in my shoulder.
[speaker002:] Up, up over the top here.
[Katrina:] On the shoulder, more
[speaker002:] Yes, that's right.
[Katrina:] I've always been getting a shooting pain there that kind of happened and I just
[speaker002:] That's right.
[Katrina:] thought it was the stitches.
[speaker002:] That's, aye, it's, it's everything's beginning to get tight.
[Katrina:] Tight now, aye.
[speaker002:] This is, this is you starting to feel the sore bits. But er I'll, I'll drop him a wee note anyway.
[Katrina:] Aye. Okay.
[speaker002:] Right Katrina.
[Katrina:] else I feel Doctor I've,
[speaker002:] Aye.
[Katrina:] got angina, and I've got the like the heart failure.
[speaker002:] Mhm.
[Katrina:] And I didn't want any breast off, naturally.
[speaker002:] No no.
[Katrina:] I mean but see the tremendous strain that it's putting on me?
[speaker002:] Ah.
[Katrina:] You know, I feel that is left, left angina, because I've got to rip the brassiere off at a certain time of the day
[speaker002:] Aha.
[Katrina:] extra weight.
[speaker002:] The extra weight,
[Katrina:] you know? I didn't want any off, I think I'd have.
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER]
[Katrina:] [LAUGHTER] []
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] Right Katrina [].
[Katrina:] Cheerio.
[speaker002:] Right, okay, cheerio now.