The surgery was shorter, but the incision is longer and the wound much deeper. And I’m thrilled with the consequent pain because……..the margins are clear! I got the phone call from my doctor a few minutes ago (she actually giggled when she told me the news!), just 24 hours after surgery, and there was no […]
The last time I saw my doctor, she asked me if I wanted to pursue “Oncotype Testing.” With this test, they analyze a sample of my tumor to determine how likely recurrence will be and, therefore, how aggressively to treat the disease. It’s an extremely costly test (over $3,000), but my insurance agreed to cover […]
(Please, please, please don’t read this entry on Facebook! The pics are intended to be seen in their original context… So do me a favor and click here, will you? https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) Sorry to disappoint, but my date isn’t this handsome man… Actually, the last time I had a real date was…uhm…when I was in college, […]
(Reading on Facebook? Please click here to be taken to this entry as it ought to look: https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) You know those camera shots of tennis matches where you see hundreds of heads in a stadium shifting back and forth in unison to follow the action? Well, I feel like my emotional head has been swiveling […]
Life has been so full since my last hurried entry–but not full of weeping and wailing, as some of you might have worried, given the news I received last Friday. The first evening after the news was…rough. I prayed. I considered my options. I crumpled up and threw away the mental notes I’d been making: […]
UPDATE: I was sitting on the floor of my bedroom this evening, trying to choose a song to sing on Sunday, when the phone call from my beloved doctor came. The biopsies she took two days ago revealed another active cancer site… She couldn’t give me a plan of attack, not until further discussion and […]
(Reading on Facebook? Please click here for the correct layout and colors… https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) “Find rest, O my soul, in God alone. My hope comes from Him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress– I WILL NOT BE SHAKEN.” Psalm 62 God is good. He is my strength. He is my […]
Side-note: yes, I will indeed be having surgery #4 (or #7, depending on how you’re counting) on Wednesday. Please pray for my 10:45 wire insertion and my 2:30 lumpectomy/biopsy. I’m not worried–haven’t been for any of the surgeries so far–but I’m getting a little weary of the whole thing! I’m even going to try not […]
(Reading on Facebook? Please click here to see photos and layout in a less confusing format: https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) Photo note: most pictures included in this post are of the “before and after” school of illustration. I figured a entry on hindsight warranted a study in chronological perspective. **************** I walked into my new dorm with a […]
(Reading on Facebook? Please click here to be taken to my blog and see this entry as it ought to look: https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) I sat in the examining room this afternoon, after my surgeon (Dr. Diehl) had left, and shook my head in stunned disbelief. When I wrote in this blog last week, my course of […]