How do you handle the big anniversaries?
Hey everyone Its the first anniversary of my surgery date tomorrow; the fateful day I parted ways with what was left of my tumour, a third of my breast, and about 23 lymph nodes. I always try t...
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@Sarnicad my 5 years had a few ups and downs. It certainly hasn’t been all Champagne and roses.
At my 1 year mammogram I arrived directly from a 2 hour meeting with my solicitor totally stressed about my business partnership problems. I was supposed to be working (rather than visiting solicitors and doctors) and so had skipped my lunch break and was extremely dehydrated.
I fainted during the mammogram of course! Woke up with no idea where I was or what was happening and why a man I’d never seen before was holding my hands and staring into my eyes?
And then I realised I didn’t have any clothes on from the waist up...
Talk about confusing???
Then the mammogram tech finally reappears and tells me I fainted.
Then while sitting with the nice man who brought me a cup of tea and a biscuit (because I hadn’t eaten all day) I somehow managed to dump the cup of tea in HIS lap???
Finally get through the mammogram and ultrasound and I’m pretty keen to make my escape when they tell me that Dr XXX needs to see me. It’s the nice man with the cup of tea who is now wearing scrubs instead of wet pants.
I needed a biopsy and he was about to do it. Haha!
Anyway after a few days of stressing about the results it was all clear. At least it took my mind off my business issues.
There’s been a few more hiccups since then but you just have to take it one step at a time.
At my 1 year mammogram I arrived directly from a 2 hour meeting with my solicitor totally stressed about my business partnership problems. I was supposed to be working (rather than visiting solicitors and doctors) and so had skipped my lunch break and was extremely dehydrated.
I fainted during the mammogram of course! Woke up with no idea where I was or what was happening and why a man I’d never seen before was holding my hands and staring into my eyes?
And then I realised I didn’t have any clothes on from the waist up...
Talk about confusing???
Then the mammogram tech finally reappears and tells me I fainted.
Then while sitting with the nice man who brought me a cup of tea and a biscuit (because I hadn’t eaten all day) I somehow managed to dump the cup of tea in HIS lap???
Finally get through the mammogram and ultrasound and I’m pretty keen to make my escape when they tell me that Dr XXX needs to see me. It’s the nice man with the cup of tea who is now wearing scrubs instead of wet pants.
I needed a biopsy and he was about to do it. Haha!
Anyway after a few days of stressing about the results it was all clear. At least it took my mind off my business issues.
There’s been a few more hiccups since then but you just have to take it one step at a time.