by Delores Brown

Created on: June 14, 2008   Last Updated: June 15, 2008

CANCER FREEAND LIVING ONE DAY AT A TIME
My mammogram had been due earlier in the year, June to be exact, but when I went, my Doctor suggested that I wait a few weeks, because my Insurance would not pay if it was done too early. So I waited. I didn't see my Doctor for 6 months and I reminded him that it hadn't been done, so he ordered it done.
Within a few days he called and said he wanted me to have a compression ultrasound,because some suspicious had shown up. He assured me that it didn't have to be Cancer, but it was best to be sure.

I had the Ultrasound and the suspicious area was still there. I'm getting worried now, but I trust God. My doctor asked if He could send me to see a Surgeon and suggested one.
I went to see the surgeon and he asked if I had felt a lump or anything, I told him "no, I didn't feel a thing. He examined my breast and said he didn't feel anything either and couldn't see anything on the X-rays. I was then scheduled for Same Day Surgery and in a couple of days had pre-Op done. On the day of surgery I went in at 8AM was prepped and then sent through the Corridors to the Women's Center Where a young Doctor did another form of Mammogram and inserter a needle in my breast, after numbing me with Lidocaine, and then he inserted a guidewire to the area, which was as small as a pin head. Then back to Surgery I go.
I had an IV started and after 2 or 3 minutes I didn't know a thing.
When I awakened my Surgeon told me that things looked good but it had to be sent to the lab to be sure.
I went home, still hopeful and praying that it wasn't Cancer, but, a few days later my Surgeon called and asked me to come in. The first thing he said was, "I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but It was cancer", but, he said" the best thing was that it is not invasive and is encapsulated so it is not spreading and can be cured 99.9%. I thank my God for that.
I did have to go back to SDS to have an additional surgery abound the area of the Biopsy, which was not bad at all.
After the surgery I had to go to the Cancer Center for 28 Radiation treatments.
God is so good! You know, if I had had the mammogram in June or July last year, that cancer would not have shown up and would have been growing for a whole year, because I would not have had another mammogram until June or July this year.
This all happened in December 10, Janurary 25 and February 5. I'm a little sore from the surgery, but, not bad enough to take the pain pills that I was given. I just took a couple of Advils and

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