Abscess or not?

So I’m a non-smoking, non-diabetic, non-lactating 38yo (BF for 2 years and my kid is 4) and several months ago found a perfectly round lump. I waited a couple cycles to see if it went away but to my surprise, it drained pus, decompressed, and I flushed it and it healed fine. well now I have another lump and made an appt. showed up and “oh your appt is NEXT week” so I went to immediate care that night.

It was comical. I think the make NP was uncomfortable with the anatomical location. 🤣 but his eyes widened when he saw the lump, heat and redness and said “oh I’m not sure that’s an abscess you need to be referred to a general surgeon”. He turned to the wall and said “you can uh, put your, uh, shirt back on”. I should have had fun with it and said “oh you mean put my boob away?” He prescribed abx and had the nurse give me a nice big stingy ab shot in my butt, (after saying I was JUST waiting on paperwork! 😡)

There hasn’t been much change since a week ago when the antibiotics were started. There isn’t much pain. I saw the surgeon this morning and he did an FNA and poked the 3cm lump in all sorts of ways, but only got a TINY amount of what appeared to be purulent fluid. I was surprised. I expected fluid. And then there would be no more lump. I also expected it to hurt more than that antibiotic shot but it was alright! No lidocaine even. He said we could wait on cultures and see if the right antibiotic was chosen or we could get it all over with sooner with incision and drainage and biopsy if anything looks neoplastic. I chose the recommended later, which is scheduled for Tuesday next week.

Am I crazy for not going the conservative approach? I want it to be done, and I know it’s pretty unlikely to just go away with antibiotics if it’s a large loculated abscess , and since it won’t decompress with a needle, it would probably end up with surgical drainage anyway. And this way I get definitive results that it is or isn't “just” an abscess.

Anyone had a surgical drainage procedure who can share what recovery time was like? I forgot to ask.

Since no fluid was found, I keep wondering about the little details about my case that are giving the drs suspicions they may be dealing with something else! But I guess I just gotta have fun and look forward to my propofol nap in the meantime.