Mammogram #2

Most women under the age of 40 have never had a mammogram. Are they fun? Ummm NO. Are they painful? Not really. The anticipation is far worse than the actual mammogram.

I am not sure why when you go in, they turn the lights down. Maybe they are trying to make you "think" you are in a tranquil spa and about to get a massage?

I prayed hard before, during and after that first mammogram on March 14th. But the biopsy on March 27th confirmed cancer. This is my first mammogram/ultrasound since the original one in March. This one was used to see the response of my tumor (HATE that word). We did chemotherapy first-before surgery. My oncologist (who happens to remind me of my Ken doll from when I was kid) wanted chemo first to see if my tumor responds to the meds. His comment, "How do we know if the chemotherapy works, if we take the cancer out? This way we watch it work!"

The hope is that my tumor (still hate that word) has shrunk to nothing. And that in the fall (October-ish) I will be able to have my lumpectomy followed by weeks of radiation once healed. And while I have SEEN the official pictures (I even have a picture cd;)), I will wait for the surgeon to tell me the official word. She will also give me the game plan.

Cancer sucks!!! But I do know without a shadow of a doubt, that my GOD is bigger than my breast cancer!