Thought I'd let you all know what's going on since I've been so spotty on the forum over the last year.
On Tuesday, July 25, I was diagnosed with two forms of breast cancer.
I had noticed a lump sort of high on my breast, almost what I would consider my chest, and went in the have it examined and what everyone thought was likely just a cyst turned out to look suspicious on imaging. On reviewing the mammogram a second suspicious site was discovered that was otherwise not palpable.
I had a biopsy and got the news last Tuesday. My doctor felt really bad about not being more concerned at my initial visit, but he ordered the imaging I needed which for me the biopsy so he did his job and probably saved my life since neither of us knew the second tumor was even there.
I'm in the early stages of talking with doctors so the only firm things I know about treatment are that I will be getting a double mastectomy, radiation treatment and, if my third biopsy of a suspicious site in my armpit goes the way my new oncologist thinks it will, probably chemo too.
So far everyone is amazed at how well I'm taking the news. I'm wondering when the big emotional crack will come for me. The prognosis, as far as I understand it now, is good, one of the cancers I have is a "good" kind and the other is the most common kind of breast cancer and had features known to respond well to certain kinds of treatment so that's good. I haven't been balling my eyes out, I've only cried a couple times but I generally feel like my baseline anxiety level had risen which is understandable... Having my sister around to joke with has been helpful but she's moving in a month so maybe that's when it will happen...
My mom was with me when I got the diagnosis and by the end of that day my dad and sisters were told and a select group at work.
I'm telling my best friend tomorrow and the rest of my coworkers on Tuesday so I'm using this post as practice of a sort in telling people since it has been a few days.
For the couple people here that I'm Facebook friends with, I would appreciate if you don't post about this there as there are still IRL friends that don't know and I don't want them to find out that way.
So... That's what's going on. Thanks for letting me get this is my chest... So to speak
On Tuesday, July 25, I was diagnosed with two forms of breast cancer.
I had noticed a lump sort of high on my breast, almost what I would consider my chest, and went in the have it examined and what everyone thought was likely just a cyst turned out to look suspicious on imaging. On reviewing the mammogram a second suspicious site was discovered that was otherwise not palpable.
I had a biopsy and got the news last Tuesday. My doctor felt really bad about not being more concerned at my initial visit, but he ordered the imaging I needed which for me the biopsy so he did his job and probably saved my life since neither of us knew the second tumor was even there.
I'm in the early stages of talking with doctors so the only firm things I know about treatment are that I will be getting a double mastectomy, radiation treatment and, if my third biopsy of a suspicious site in my armpit goes the way my new oncologist thinks it will, probably chemo too.
So far everyone is amazed at how well I'm taking the news. I'm wondering when the big emotional crack will come for me. The prognosis, as far as I understand it now, is good, one of the cancers I have is a "good" kind and the other is the most common kind of breast cancer and had features known to respond well to certain kinds of treatment so that's good. I haven't been balling my eyes out, I've only cried a couple times but I generally feel like my baseline anxiety level had risen which is understandable... Having my sister around to joke with has been helpful but she's moving in a month so maybe that's when it will happen...
My mom was with me when I got the diagnosis and by the end of that day my dad and sisters were told and a select group at work.
I'm telling my best friend tomorrow and the rest of my coworkers on Tuesday so I'm using this post as practice of a sort in telling people since it has been a few days.
For the couple people here that I'm Facebook friends with, I would appreciate if you don't post about this there as there are still IRL friends that don't know and I don't want them to find out that way.
So... That's what's going on. Thanks for letting me get this is my chest... So to speak
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
