Ok, it's important to realize that you go through (or I did) similar stages of grief that you always hear about concerning a death. So, in my case, fear, anger, denial, sadness and then acceptance. Fear because the radiologist I had been using since 2002 pointed to the screen and said "there's your cancer"! And a pit in my stomach developed-then anger because he had just missed this in a mammogram about 60 days before this with the comment "I don't write the orders" (because a mere screening mammogram would not catch this with my dense breasts) Denial because he then said "don't worry, it's Stage 1 and we got it very early". I asked "how do you know that?' His answer was "I don't see it anywhere else"--sadness because I soon found out he was wrong about that too and I was a hair from Stage 3 and finally where I am today-total acceptance and in "let's get going and get rid of this once and for all" mode.
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