Dear 'anyone who reads this',
Bear with me as I'm two glasses of wine and a couple of hours of crying down the line but ....
My mother saw her consultant today and phoned late this afternoon to say that her small malignant lump (see my message below), picked up during her routine mamogram, has now actually spread to more of her right breast and her right hand lymph nodes. She's going into hospital on Sunday, she's getting her right breast and lymph nodes removed on Monday and is due to spend 5 days in hospital, following which she will now go through chemotherapy as opposed to radiotherapy.
It's such a shock to all of us as this was supposed to be a small lump, removed and some weeks of radiotherapy later, that was going to be that.
We (my brother, sister, father and I) are all now in pieces and any good news stories would be appreciated more than you could possibly imagine!
Yours a little drunk (hic),
Snowstorm
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By Snowstorm on Mon 13-Aug-07 21:40:31
Hello anyone who reads this ...
Last Thursday we found out that a small lump discovered during my mother's routine mammogram is breast cancer. Nobody's cried, nobody's shouted, we just can't believe it. I find myself thinking that I can deal with saying that my mother has a cancerous (is that a word?!) lump in her breast but not that she has cancer, that sounds too serious/terminal. If you knew my mother then you'd know what I mean, she's just too clean living to have cancer and it just doesn't seem fair (not that cancer is fair, I do understand that).
She's going to have the lump removed on the 22nd August (plus a few lymph nodes) and then she's due to have some weeks of radiology following that. That's all we know at the moment, without the doctors actually going in and seeing what's in there.
She's 66, she's my mother, my friend and my rock ... and I really need to hear some good news stories about this kind of thing (I'm taking the ostrich approach on the bad stuff at this point).
Thank you in advance.