You are just beginning this journey none of us wants to take, Babs. I hope you will be referred to an oncologist ASAP and get the very best care from a cancer specialist. I see you were either up very late or got up very early, so I hope you are getting some rest. Our thoughts are with you and we'll be here on your journey, pulling for you.
Thanks for sharing your ordeal, Lulu. It does help people to talk with those who have been down the dreaded road before. I'm so glad you made a full recovery.
I agree with everyone, @Babs Hunt ; you are (like @Lulu Moppet ) a survivor, and I believe that you will make it through this new trial, and since you have such tremendous faith in God, I am sure that will be a source of strength. For you during this time. Sometimes, we do not know why things happen to us, but when these things do happen, then instead of keeping us away from them, God walks with us through the trial. When I was in the bad car accident, I knew that I should have died, and it totally puzzled me, because I knew that the only reason I was alive was because God had taken care of me; but it seemed like it would have been just as simple to have had me on that road even 10 minutes earlier/later, and then that drunk driver would not have crashed into my little car. I do not know what His purpose was, but I am sure that it was God taking care of me through the accident, so I knew that He was looking after me, even though he didn’t keep me out of the accident.
Jeeez @Yvonne Smith , that is some kinda car crash...you certainly must have had some guardian angel on your shoulder that day...
I see Yvonne as a person who can bring people together. Perhaps that's why she survived, because she is needed.
It really was a terrible car accident, @Holly Saunders , and I know for a certainty that I should have never survived, let alone walked away from that accident. I was with my ex-husband, we were traveling home, and I was driving my little Yugo car , when a drunk driver in a 3/4 ton truck with heavy racks on the back plowed into my car at over 100 mph (him, not me). I was driving along at about 55 mph, and he came from the next lane over, so when he crashed into my car, he was locked into the back bumper of the Yugo, and I was sideways in the road, which pulled us off of the freeway and down over a steep bank. We rolled twice, end over end, and then sideways and landed upside down, with the truck on top of us. Giving all possible credit to seat belts, I still should have not lived through that crash, and I know that, and know that I had to have angels watching over us that night. Truck drivers who were behind us on the I-5 freeway stopped, called emergency, and pulled us out of the mangled car, and we both walked up the embankment back to the highway. An amazing thing......when we went over that bank and into the forwards roll, I knew that i was going to die right then, and somehow, I had a peace inside that if it was my time to die, then God knew what was best.
@Babs Hunt , we're pulling for you. I know several people who are breast cancer survivors. To add a little levity to a somber subject, a friend of mine who is in her fifties had a double mastectomy. She had implants afterward. She told the surgeon that she wanted cute, perky ones in place of the old baggy ones.
There's nothing I could say that would help, but you have been in my prayers and will continue to be.
No one ever wants something like this to happen to them....but it has been so amazing seeing God's hand move in this "season" of my life. Again I thank all of you for your continued prayers and well wishes. On Monday at 1pm I meet my Breast Surgeon, Dr. Rheatha Williams who is at least 64 years old and has been in the medical field for over 29 years. I like knowing that she is not to much younger than me and believe that we will be able to understand each other very well because of this. I also will probably be scheduled for the breast MRI sometime next week too. Once we have all the results in I will know what my options are and will take a little time to decide what options I want for myself. It feels like I have been on a roller coaster these past few weeks and everything was happening so fast that I needed things to slow down a little so I could soak in my faith and ask my heavenly Father for wisdom in making the right decision in my case. My family, the medical people I am interacting with, and everyone (including those here on the Forum) have been so caring and supportive that I am truly thankful for the blessing of loving people in my life all the time....but especially at this time in my life. Yes, my faith and my Father God will see me through this...of this I am sure. "Even to your old age and gray hairs I am He who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you." Isaiah 46:4
I went to the Library the other day and must have checked out every book they had on Breast Cancer....well almost every book. Even though I was doing research online I still like reading a book better and so I have been doing a whole lot of reading these past few days. When I go to the Breast Surgeon on Monday I am pretty sure I will be able to understand just about everything she says to me. It's funny how fast you can learn about something when it becomes part of your life. But to me it pretty much boils down to this one thing. I may have breast cancer and it may kill me to this earthly life...if that happens I'll be starting my eternal life and living in my mansion in Heaven that Jesus (the Carpenter ) built for me. And I'll be waiting to see all of you there someday too. It's not that I have a death wish but God wrote in His Book of Life the days that were numbered for me on earth....and if my number is getting ready to be called...then I know where my new address will be.