On Breast Cancer
So, PW had a mamogram, an ultrasound, and a biopsy on Wednesday. She is completely freaked out about the whole thing which is completely understandable. The waiting to hear the results is killing me so I can imagine how she feels. I imagine it’s impossible to think about anything else and she said everytime the phone rings, she’s afraid to pick it up. It’s like one phone call holds her future in it’s ring.
I really am so afraid for her as this is one of my fears too. However, the doctor told her he was 95% sure it was just a cyst and the doctor who did the biopsy told her that the sample he took “looked clean”. One of the nurses told her that she had a similar cyst herself for 8 years and it was no big deal.
Meanwhile, when PW went to the hospital the tech actually told her that she was too young to need a mamo and a baseline and she didn’t think the tests were at all necessary. PW told her she was welcome to call the doctor and ask him.
I know someone else who went a few years ago, also at 31, to that hospital to get a mamo and the tech then also argued with her. I just don’t understand how anyone, especially a woman, could make that argument that someone is too young to be having these tests. Breast cancer is an equal opportunity cancer; it doesn’t care how old you are and more and more young women are getting it and being misdiagnosed and dying. It just infuriates me.
Apparently even after the radiologist told the tech to do the mamo anyway, she treated PW pretty bad and it wasn’t until the radiologist thought they needed to do an ultrasound that the tech started being nice. PW told the radiologist that when she came back for the biopsy that tech better not be around. She wasn’t.
To be honest this morning, I feel sick and want to cry. I’m so afraid for PW. It’s taking all my will to not call her every 15 minutes to see if she’s heard yet. Her boyfriend has been doing that anyway so I probably wouldn’t be able to get through.
tags: breast cancer
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