scariness

This is my Breast Caner Odyssey - a journey I never even contemplated traveling.

It started with the pestiness of letters stating they found an "irregularity" in the mammogram. With each ensuing visit, the spectre of breast cancer is down played. Each visit and even to the last - the biopsy I am reassured that 90% of the time its nothing and all these visits are simply precautionary.

I so bought it and found all this testing quite the nuisance and an imposition on my precious time. I checked a box that said I wanted a phone call with the biopsy results. Jeez - like I wanted to go to yet another useless Dr. appt.

So when I did get the call I was stunned to hear the diagnosis - positive for malignancy. I burst out in tears.

How unlike me! This is what I looked like at work:



So now I have a surgery date. Its Feb 18th. In the meantime, the sun still shines, the birds sing and life goes on around me.

What will it be like to a breast caner survivor? Will you be walking for me? What will they find when they cut me open and do even more biopsies? I will report in to you my friends on this and my other secret life.

For now, while I have a shred of good health -- I love you all -- Stay tuned willya?