'Trials will come, trials bigger than you want, but our loving Savior will hold you and carry you through it. He will supply what you need and the things you didn’t know you needed. ' - Kristen Wright Lowe
. A word no one wants to hear said to them. It stops your world. Your mind starts spinning at all the things. You think,My family has heard this word more than we would like. Last May, we lost my Mom to breast cancer. She was seventy-five years old and had battled a series of health issues, but she couldn’t win the battle with her third diagnosis of breast cancer. She had a mastectomy the previous year, but it came back with a vengeance on the other side.
I, on the other hand, lived in denial! I thought this would never happen to me. I am healthy, I try to eat well, for the most part. I am a hippie; I don’t like chemicals; I can’t stand taking medicine; I even make my own toothpaste for goodness sake. I cannot get cancer!Apparently, you can do all the right things, but your genes usually seem to win! My sister called me one day after an appointment with her surgeon and said, “All of my doctors are worried about you.
Secrets in my family do not hide well. It was the first question my sister had for me the first time I saw her after her surgery. I had to deal with this. This was bigger than just a little denial: it is what just took our mother from us! I had four more mammograms, two biopsies, ultrasounds, and an MRI over the next two months. My surgeon fought to find it. And we finally did. A 5 cm mass that never showed up except with the MRI. It was a roller coaster of emotions, but all along deep down in that pang of fear, I knew. I knew I had cancer. It was me.
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