Once I got back to Pittsburgh and saw my PCP, she suspected that it was a clogged milk duct but just to be safe she had me go to get a mammogram. For a few minutes, relief had come over me. The worst might not be my story, I had thought.
But...
After my mammogram, they didn't like what they had seen. The next step was to get an ultrasound. My after visit summary marked the findings as suspicious. Basically when you see that word, it means that it doesn't look good!
Quickly that relief turned back into fear. I was so afraid. The unknown is one of the hardest parts of cancer. Waiting for results is hard. It plays with your emotions. It has you in a place of hope and despair all at the same time.
I was scheduled next for a biopsy to confirm what they already knew.
A few days later I showed up at Allegheny General Hospital and proceeded to look for the Breast Center. I vividly remember asking a security guard for directions on how to get there. He gave complicated directions and assured me I was just at the beginning of my journey. In his words, he meant the beginning of me finding my destination within the hospital, but in my mind.. those words were like alarm bells going off. I heard very clearly that this was the beginning of my journey and I whispered it back to myself and did a slight laugh, again to myself, because I knew those words were quite literally true.. it was the REAL beginning to my journey of Breast Cancer.
The funny thing in all of this is that God used circumstances and others words to speak to me. It wasn't really an echo in my mind of what the man said but more so, Gods way of speaking directly to my soul.
The biopsy results came back exactly as suspected.. no longer suspicious but confirmed.
I was diagnosed on July 11th 2016 with...
ESTROGEN RECEPTOR (90%, STRONG) AND
PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR (90%, STRONG)
IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY IS POSITIVE FOR HER2 OVEREXPRESSION (SCORE 3)
This is what you call TRIPLE Positive Breast Cancer. These hormones are what fed my cancer. It is very aggressive.
Continue to follow along as I take you through my "journey". I post daily.
Once I got back to Pittsburgh and saw my PCP, she suspected that it was a clogged milk duct but just to be safe she had me go to get a mammogram. For a few minutes, relief had come over me. The worst might not be my story, I had thought.
But...
After my mammogram, they didn't like what they had seen. The next step was to get an ultrasound. My after visit summary marked the findings as suspicious. Basically when you see that word, it means that it doesn't look good!
Quickly that relief turned back into fear. I was so afraid. The unknown is one of the hardest parts of cancer. Waiting for results is hard. It plays with your emotions. It has you in a place of hope and despair all at the same time.
I was scheduled next for a biopsy to confirm what they already knew.
A few days later I showed up at Allegheny General Hospital and proceeded to look for the Breast Center. I vividly remember asking a security guard for directions on how to get there. He gave complicated directions and assured me I was just at the beginning of my journey. In his words, he meant the beginning of me finding my destination within the hospital, but in my mind.. those words were like alarm bells going off. I heard very clearly that this was the beginning of my journey and I whispered it back to myself and did a slight laugh, again to myself, because I knew those words were quite literally true.. it was the REAL beginning to my journey of Breast Cancer.
The funny thing in all of this is that God used circumstances and others words to speak to me. It wasn't really an echo in my mind of what the man said but more so, Gods way of speaking directly to my soul.
The biopsy results came back exactly as suspected.. no longer suspicious but confirmed.
I was diagnosed on July 11th 2016 with...
ESTROGEN RECEPTOR (90%, STRONG) AND
PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR (90%, STRONG)
IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY IS POSITIVE FOR HER2 OVEREXPRESSION (SCORE 3)
This is what you call TRIPLE Positive Breast Cancer. These hormones are what fed my cancer. It is very aggressive.
Continue to follow along as I take you through my "journey". I post daily and share on my blog as well in case you need to catch up on past days. Link in my Bio.
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