I had been let go from my job due to some cut backs. In the weeks following, I was trying to get things lined out for whatever my next venture would be. Realizing that my health insurance would expire at the end of the month and knowing that my doctor had written orders for a mammogram, I decided I'd better go get it done. My appointment was scheduled for Friday, March 29th. Talk about cutting it close! I started to cancel that appointment several times that day for one reason or another. I wasn't afraid of getting it done, I just didn't want to. In the end, I am so thankful for whatever it was that MADE me go!! I was called on Monday, April 1st and told they needed to do more pictures and went in on Wednesday, April 3rd. Thinking it was just a spot of dense tissue, I wasn't worried. At least not until the doctor came in and suggested I let them do a Stereo-tactic biopsy and said we could do it that day! I got the call the following Friday, April 5th.... I have breast cancer! It just flipped my world around! I was scheduled for surgery and sent to the Onocologist right away. He determined that I had a rare blood clotting gene and ruled out the possibility of Chemo but ordered 36 rounds of radiation. He said the risk of a blood clot far outweighed the benefit of Chemo.
Today I'm cancer free!! I live with the fear of the day it returns because of not being able to fight it off the way It should have been but I'm confident that when that day arrives, I'll be in just as good of hands as I was the first time!! The thing that has always amazed me was how me losing my job was truly a blessing!! Who knows when I would have gotten my mammogram if I hadn't been pushed!!
Oklahoma City, OK
