A couple of weeks ago, I had my annual mammogram. They had become routine for me – nothing special, just the regular smashing of my girls between two plastic plates. Normally, I receive a letter after the exam stating that everything was normal, and I schedule the exam for next year.
But this time, I received a letter stating that I needed to have a diagnostic (follow-up) mammogram.
This is not the kind of news anyone wants to receive, especially not a breast cancer survivor.
The days leading up to the diagnostic felt like weeks.
I finally had the follow-up mammogram (6 years to the month of when I had chemotherapy in 2006). While I waited for the results, I thought about my life now versus what my life was like when I went through the process years ago. I wasn’t married then, was a newly minted lawyer, and had only been in Atlanta for a year. Before I continued my walk down memory lane, the nurse returned and told me that the results were NORMAL!
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| "your exam shows nothing to indicate breast cancer" |
