It's important for me to remember one of the worse days of my life as I was going through the process of the breast cancer diagnosis. I have invasive ductal carcinoma. Stage 1 thank heavens. Treatable. From the get go I have faced it with a positive attitude. I know I will be ok. But this particular day was terrible. They needed a biopsy of the lump that was found so I scheduled appointment in the morning. I need to add that at this time I already knew there was cancer from the mammogram. Now they wanted a sample. So when I got the news about the cancer my mom panicked and said "get off the soda today!!!" So I stopped drinking Diet Coke which results in horrendous withdrawals and headaches which I had this morning. A bad choice. To top it off I also had vertigo. Bad vertigo. I don't know why, I don't know how, but I had it. And it was horrible. So when I pulled up to Kaiser and parked the car I was crying. I honestly don't know how I was going to make it into the building on my own. So I prayed that Father in heaven would hold my hand as I went through this. And I did it for my family. I kept thinking "do it for your kids". And I was blessed. The radiology asst that helped was wonderful and compassionate. She calmed my nerves. The biopsy was removed with what sounded like a staple gun. With each sample there was a loud noise and out comes a chunk. The hard part was waiting in the hall in radiology dept with my open in the front hospital gown until they made sure they got a good sample. My head was killing me and my vertigo was keeping me from looking up and around. I don't exactly remember why they needed biopsy even though they knew there was cancer already. They need to look at everything under the microscope. Needless to say I made it through. Went home and got into bed.
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