Surgery

The lumpectomy and sentinel node biopsy was scheduled for December 14. I would go in for the radioactive seed placement the day before. As I understood it this was the placement of a small radioactive device so the surgeon could see the edges of the tumor and would...

On To KU Med Center

​ We were back in Kansas City for my first visits with the breast surgeon and breast oncologist the week after Thanksgiving. I started out with another mammogram (that’s three in two months if you’re counting) and an ultrasound. I was able to have lunch between the...

Pathology Results

These words have changed my life in several ways since January of 2013. But this time it was personal. In November and December of 2014, we had traveled six times in eight weeks to KU Med Center as they were trying to find lung cancer that a local practitioner thought...

The Horses Always Know

​ My day was completely derailed. It is Friday, November 10, eight days before my birthday. John’s fall play has the final dress rehearsal tonight and performances on Saturday and Monday. I had the biopsy on Monday and the doctor said that if she didn’t call by noon...

The Biopsy

The day of the biopsy was here. I had a hair appointment first thing that morning and John had a League Choir clinic that afternoon and concert that night in Ellis, about 70 miles away. My hairdresser was my high school classmate and her mother was a breast cancer...