My new Booby pal is due to have her biopsy on Friday. She said that her doctor wanted to wait until her monthly visitor came to see if the lump was still there. Well considering it has been there for over a year my guess is that it will be there before, during and after the visitor leaves. I am not 100% sure that she did not want to wait on the biopsy. I know she is scared to get it done, I was too.
I wanted to take her by the shoulder and say look you could potentially have a ticking time bomb in you and you are waiting because you are scared. If she had a real bomb in her hands would she hold it tight or would she toss it like she was playing hot potato. I really truly do understand her fear and her wanting to put off hearing the results.
How do I explain to her that she really needs to get her biopsy done as soon as possible that it is better to know and deal with it than ignore it, worry about it and stress out about it? No one can say when a cancer will move into lymph nodes or other organs so isn’t it better to get it out as soon as possible. I hope she gets to the doctor and does get it out this week. I hope my feeling is wrong that it will not turn out to be cancer. I would never be so happy to be wrong. I truly hope that I am wrong I would love to tell her I am sorry that she had this cancer scare and so glad it was a false scare but I do not think I will get that chance.
I am going to school right now and I had to do an informative speech so I chose breast cancer. Hey I know the facts and the most important part that I stressed upon over and over was not to ignore the signs out of fear or cost. There are so many resources to get help. You can check out the American Cancer Society at www.cancer.org or the Susan B Komen Society at www.komen.org.
As I ended my speech “They are your boobies you need to do what you can to keep them.”