Can You Learn To Be Patient With Breast Cancer?
Written by guest blogger Ronna Benjamin, BetterAfter50.com
It is early, very early, Saturday morning as I write this. I am a little out of sorts, and didn’t notice until rereading this over for the 3rd time that I initially wrote, “it is early Saturday morning as I right this….” Yikes. That kind of thing has been happening to me a lot lately. Auto correct has definitely become my friend.
This is the fourth weekend in a row I have been waiting for results about something with my breast cancer. That’s right, the fourth weekend. On the path to figuring out a treatment plan, I am learning more than one would ever want to know about one’s boobs.
My cousin, who has been through this before, just two years ago, with the same kind of cancer- even the same breast (and luckily now, on the other side of it, she is better than ever) informed me that these first weeks of gathering information, putting the puzzle together, putting together a plan, and moving forward is the hardest.
“It is painful, torture actually, to wait,” she emailed me, “to wait for the pathology, the MRI results, the receptor statuses, the blood work, the appointments…“
