They Lied (by sarah)
You may recall that a while ago Mum had a breast cancer scare as she had found a lump but they did a mamogram and said it was all fine - well the lump got bigger but stopped hurting her and she started to loose weight so she went back.
They did another scan and found several lumps so the did a biopsy - I hadn't realised that this was a bit more invasive than the ones I had done via endoscapy etc... She got the results on Friday - they were positive.
She is going to have an operation to remove the lumps and the lymph glands under her arms and just to be on the safe side they are giving her a bone marrow scan and checking her liver and stuff to check that the cancer is only isolated in the breast and hasn't gone wandering off anywhere else.
At this stage we are hopeful that it is only in the breast and can be delt with via the operation, so avoiding all that unpleasantness of radio- and chemo- therapy.
Mum is a bit shocked as no one else in the family has ever had breast cancer before but as I have repeatedly pointed out to her she was on Hormone Replacement Therapy or HRT for a very long time - as in like coming up to two decades! And one of the side effects can be breast cancer 🙁 As soon as the first lump was found they took her off of the drug and the cancer is in a very early stage so its not all doom and gloom!
Her and Dad are staying with me this week whilst Alaric is in London then she is off for the chop!
Of course she managed to panic me something rotten as she decided she didnt want to tell me over the phone mean while I was trying to get hold of her to find out the results of the biopsy - now the last time someone dissappeared on me like that it was my friend Amber and she had been rushed straight in for intensive chemo as the luekemia had been so bad.
The Family | sarah | 
Mon 8th Oct 2007 9:04 pm
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By Charlee, Mon 8th Oct 2007 @ 11:28 pm
great big hugs to you all! If they've got it in the early stages, that's pretty positive, and if she can avoid hte nasties of chemo and radio, all the better! You're Mum's a great strong woman, and I truly hope everything will be ok. xxx