Dancing With Fear: Tips and Wisdom from Breast Cancer Survivors
by Leila Peltosaari
USA $14.95, CAN $18.95, 224 pages, trade paperback, 2005 (published by Tikka Books)
A Life-Changing Moment
| Brief profiles of participants and events surrounding diagnosis
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I was stunned with despair, unable to think coherently. Just a year after a clean mammogram, I had a Stage III invasive carcinoma of 6 cm, mixed ductal and lobular. I found it accidentally and unexpectedly. One ordinary summer day, I was standing with arms across my chest when my subconscious signaled that one breast was soft and one was hard. It was not even a lump but rather the entire breast surface that was hard. I ignored it for a week but my intuition kept nagging me, so I went to get the tests done. When the phone rang and the doctor gave me the verdict, my daughter was still sleeping. It was supposed to be such a happy day, planning her 20th birthday party.
My husband noticed
My husband noticed something different in my right breast. I had no symptoms and nothing was found in my mammogram. The tumor was detected by ultrasound and confirmed by biopsy.
A very active mother,
A very active mother, grandmother, gardener, traveler, painter. I had retired from my government job as a secretary just two years before. No warning signs. We were preparing to leave for the winter in our recreational vehicle for Mexico. The diagnostic screening tech phoned me and told me I had cancer. I nearly collapsed.
Its very good site and the
Its very good site and the comment on mothers are so good. Love with mother cannot be shown but you express it in a very good way.........I am going now through days busy in my exams and after it I spend my holidays with my mother.........
I visited my sister overseas
I visited my sister overseas when she was going through breast cancer before I knew I would be diagnosed, too. I saw her without hair, met her doctors, saw her taking the chemo, met other patients and listened to their stories. They all seemed to be calm with a sense of humor. It helped me to meet my own cancer. A routine checkup detected a lump in my right breast, but a mammo found a tiny tumor in left breast. I was very lucky, but my first reaction was disbelief. Me? Even me? No, no, not now, the timing is not right, I wish to postpone this to a later date, perhaps to age 90 with one foot
already in the grave...
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