Took my mom to get her radiation yesterday. Emotional about all the cards and flowers in her home. She has touched many lives and is loved and admired by many.
My mom is doing pretty good. Just in a lot of pain with the device, tubes, and drains in her breast. It's very very uncomfortable. She said she has to turn her mind off to it because she knows it's necessary and will be over soon. It's just unbearably painful sometimes. But her spirits are good. She is grateful. She feels loved.
Also emotional when we got to the waiting room of the radiation/chemo cancer center. It was so full. That many people with cancer?? It's one in eight.
Mammograms save lives. Under the new government healthcare plan mammograms won't be covered by insurance until age 65!!!!! My mom is 53. The rate of breast cancer goes up substantially after age 50. Millions of cases of breast cancer will go undetected and untreated until the cancer has well-taken over. Millions of women will die. Self exams are good but can often miss things. Because my mom got her mammogram, her cancer was found early, it hadn't spread to the lymph nodes yet, she is having minimal radiation and so far still no chemotherapy, and most-likely after radiation is done, she will be fine! Back to normal life! Cancer research had come so far. It's an amazing miracle. Science, technology, and medicine is a miracle.
so happy that your mom will be okay, nikki. hooray for science, indeed.
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear about your momma! Glad she only has to go through the minimum. The technology these days is amazing.. My mom had a scare at the beginning of the year after having her mammogram. Luckily it was just a scare. She has been in remission for 16 years now after having ovarian cancer. What a yucky yucky thing. Your family is in my thoughts. :)
ReplyDeleteSo humbling, so joyful (that science is amazing, that your mom has so much support).
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